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The End Of The Master Builder?

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
15 April 2002 - 10:00am

The age of the "master builder" has been replaced with a new "planning democracy."

The master builder is out. Consensus and process are in...Few mourn the time when a handful of powerful people could shape a cityscape at will, as historians say the Rockefeller family did in the building of the World Trade Center in the 1960's and 70's. But many question whether the fractious but more democratic system that replaced it is any better in arriving at what is best for the most people, a measurement that used to be called 'the common good.'"

Full Story: A Plan Without a Master
Source: The New York Times, April 14, 2002
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