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Is Planning Really Good For Philadelphia?

Posted by: Brenda Meyer

7 November 2005 - 11:00am

Do planners really have the best interest of the city in mind? Harris Steinberg refutes an Op-Ed by Michael Sklaroff which congratulates planners on their success in the city.

"Sklaroff depicted planning as a necessary evil that is ideally consigned to an advisory role in an arena dominated by the lords of laissez-faire economics. Extolling the Hyatt at Penn's Landing and Dave & Buster's on Delaware Avenue as paragons of market-driven riverfront development, Sklaroff, chairman of the Philadelphia Historical Commission and a Philadelphia real estate lawyer, unwittingly illuminates the shallowness of his argument and the depth of the schism between planning and development in contemporary Philadelphia.

Don't be fooled, Philadelphia."

Full Story: To Plan Or Not To Plan
Source: The Philadelphia Daily News, November 3, 2005
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