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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Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City, was interviewed about her book (http://www.citsee.eu/interview/naked-city-authenticity-and-urban-citizenship-interview-sharon-zukin). In the interview she was asked about the term authenticity, specifically “What do you mean by ‘authenticity’ in this urban context?” She responds “I chose very deliberately to use the word ‘authenticity’ to talk about changes in New […]
“Which part of Jacob’s vision was actually misinterpreted?.”This is what I remember briefly asking myself after rereading the beginning of Tochterman’s “Theorizing Neoliberal Urban Development: A Genealogy from Richard Florida to Jane Jacobs” this week. As a mutual consensus, Jane Jacobs is and will be forever seen as the hero who fought […]
As I was reading Tochterman’s “Theorizing Neoliberal Urban Development: A Genealogy from Richard Florida to Jane Jacobs,” I kept thinking back to Jane Jacob’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and the way in which ideas are interpreted or rather, misinterpreted. Tochterman writes a great deal about the […]
When Amazon picked New York City as one of two locations to house its headquarters, the city was ecstatic for the 25,000 jobs promised for the 25,000 people so eagerly waiting. Or so Bezos thought. Instead of plopping themselves right into Long Island City as was planned, the people of […]
In Jane Jacob’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she mentions how important it is for there to be a natural place for people to interact with each other because if they don’t, they become more private and less social which in turn makes the damages the […]
Throughout the readings I kept finding myself coming back to the fact that Robert Moses seems to have done so much for the city, and yet I have never heard of him. When I started reading about the Washington Square Park ordeal though, I realized that I actually have heard […]
When compiling the many facets of the “Master Builder” as illustrated by the words of Ballon and Jackson, I was scouring numerous platforms to find a piece of media which artfully expressed Robert Moses as the NY figurehead he is. A piece which captures his ability to construct what he […]
Among the many projects Robert Moses brought to completion, the Cross Bronx Expressway was one with many negative repercussions. This freeway, blamed for cutting the Bronx in half and causing the migration of thousands of residents at the time it was built, is now considered the “most congested urban roadway […]
While Mayor Bill de Blasio recently went on the late night television show “Real Time with Bill Maher” to proclaim himself an indisputable progressive, some in his city have found themselves disagreeing. Recently, a small Brooklyn-based newspaper called The Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote an article about a protest that occurred as a […]
Robert Moses is a man that is known to have greatly impacted the physical features of the New York City we know today. The process of city building has changed drastically since his time, and therefore his influence on the building of NYC is unmatched. His contributions to the city […]
Robert Moses has come to be known as a figure that single-handedly made New York City what it is today-physically speaking at least. During his time in power, his contributions were astounding not only in the number of public works completed, but also in the speed of their execution, in […]
