Is Planning Really Good For Philadelphia?

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.

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November 7, 2005, 11:00 AM PST

By Brenda Meyer

"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."

Read the full story: To Plan Or Not To Plan

Thursday, November 3, 2005 in The Philadelphia Daily News

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