Re: mentalities: Moses built my hotrod

| Moses versus Jacob, the template for a dozen
| internecine wars we have seen in planning
| two, for example, in Delhi since 2001, more in Bombay
|
| wondering if the apposition is intrinsic to that
| eminent domain, and the uniary vocation is incapable of
| diagnosing it

Architexturez. wrote:
> The Mighty City
> Museums
>
> By FRANCIS MORRONE
> February 1, 2007
>
> All great cities are combinations of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses. 
> Cities grow organically, and often the soul of a city is found in its 
> emergent form, in the thousands of incremental bottom-up tweaks and in 
> what Michael Polanyi called "tacit knowledge."

Urban Tactics
A Town Revived, a Villain Redeemed

By PHILLIP LOPATE
Published: February 11, 2007
ERICH VON STROHEIM was billed in his acting days as “The man you love to 
hate.” For the last 30 years, Robert Moses has been cast in that same 
role, as the villain responsible for everything that went wrong with New 
York. Even those newly arrived to the city knew enough to boo when his 
name came up at dinner parties. Moses (1888-1981) lived a long time, and 
his impact on the physical character of New York City was greater than 
that of any other individual in its history.

Architecture: Rehabilitating Robert Moses (January 23, 2007) This 
imperious master builder has seemed to many the embodiment of all of 
modernism’s mistakes, gutting cherished working-class neighborhoods with 
highways, and more interested in big projects and superblocks than in 
preserving the past with fine-grained restorations. When, in my 2004 
book, “Waterfront,” I argued that Moses had done far more good for the 
city than bad — taking into consideration his many parks, beaches, 
bridges and other necessary transportation projects — and ought to be 
honored as one of its greatest citizens, a friend castigated me with a 
note: “Who next, Stalin?”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/nyregion/thecity/11moses.html?_r=1&ref=thecity&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin