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May 27, 2010
A Decade of Constructive Criticism
Wall Street Journal
by Julie V. Iovine
An installation entitled "The City We Imagined/The City We Made" reviews New York real estate development for the first decade of the 21st century. The Atlantic Yards fight makes an appearance.
The data are printed on 8-by-11 sheets of color-coded paper (zoning ordinances, for instance, on orange), so you can see at a glance that there was only one rezoning in 2001—but almost two dozen in 2005. Relive Forest City Ratner's battle with assorted Brooklynites over the proposed $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards development on panels for 2003 and for 2005 through 2010, as the dispute approaches blood sport. Park projects (on pink) come in sporadic waves, and it's hard to miss the oppressive reality that the scores of ambitiously designed condominiums conceived in 2007 are arriving with a thud in 2010.
Posted by steve at May 27, 2010 8:20 AM