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December 22, 2008
Atlantic Yards Brooklyn, a big project falling down?
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space
Preservationist/Urbanist/Transportation Advocate/Blogger Richard Layman catches his readers up on the latest Atlantic Yards news.
The crunch in the real estate market brings some hope to some of us, those who have been working against certain ill-conceived big projects requiring massive public subsidies, land, condemnation, and/or displacement.
Earlier this week, a goodly number of the architects designing the Atlantic Yards project under the direction of Frank Gehry were laid off.
...Cheap money enables bad projects.
When money isn't cheap anymore, quality matters, and bad deals fade away if they haven't already broken ground....
Posted by eric at December 22, 2008 9:57 AM