Andy F wrote:
>Robert Moses's deliberately making arteries in NYC impassible to
>busses
-One of Bob Fitch's great contributions was his essay on the 1929 New -York plan from the Regional Plan Association. He showed that all the -expressways attributed to Moses were actually laid out in the RPA -scheme - auto-centered suburbanization, planned by real-estate -intellectuals. All these paeans to urban planning in the abstract -seem indifferent to its actual history in the US.
So you want the whole world to be Houston-- no urban planning?
History is a wonderful thing, but acting as if urban planning is still based solely on concepts from high modernism and 1929 is insane. The raw fact is that those who attack attempts such as New London's goal of revitalizing its downtown and promoting the rise of exurbs as the alternative of new car-based growth. Destroying eminent domain means that growth has to go to open land and contribute to sprawl-- which is what the rightwing wants. Their goal is to undermine urban revitalization in favor of sprawl.
>From the Heritage Foundation:
"Kelo Backlash Could Lead to Restoration of Property Rights Lost to Smart
Growth and Eminent Domain Abuses"
http://www.heritage.org/Research/SmartGrowth/wm781.cfm
If eminent domain is so much to the advantage of corporate America, why is the campaign against it being funded by the commanding heights of capitalism?
Nathan Newman