In New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, Tom Angotti describes the Cooper Square Alternate Plan, the first community plan in New York City prepared by an active neighborhood committee which sought to fight Robert Moses and planners’ rezoning and bulldozing of the Lower East Side. The […]
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Chapter four of Angotti’s New York for Sale, “From Protest to Community Plan,” revolves around the capabilities of communities in terms of changing the way urban development takes place in their neighborhoods, contrary to the plans of private developers, for instance. He emphasizes this through the discussion of examples where […]
