Robert Moses

The Bronx Pushes to Revitalize the 'Highway to Nowhere'

28 May 2008 - 10:00am
Gotham Gazette

A remnant of Robert Moses' famous push to raze neighborhoods and build highways in their place, the Sheridan Expressway is ripe for revitalization. A local advocate believes that now "the stars are aligned" for it to happen.

The Urban Nightmare Of Le Corbusier

4 March 2008 - 7:00am
The Urban Reinventors Online Urban Journal

The machine-city envisioned by Le Corbusier, and made into practice in decades of modernist bureaucracy, has ultimately produced, according to Simon Richards' essay, an antisocial environment, against which urban planning seems to be now reacting.

Robert Moses: Good, Bad, or...?

10 April 2007 - 4:24pm

The recent exhibitions on Robert Moses at the Museum of the City of New York, the Queens Museum of Art, and Columbia University have revived old debates about Robert Moses, most of which have boiled down to the question: when all is said and done, was he good or bad? When I visited the exhibitions, trying to figure out my own answer, I remembered my father’s favorite saying (lifted from Oedipus Rex): “Would you condemn me for that which made me great?"

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