Robert Moses

Robert Moses v. Jane Jacobs

Rationalism meets advocacy planning.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Urban
• Planning
• Advocacy
• Robert
• Moses
• Jane
• Jacobs

[tintintabulations]

She castigated American cities because she foresaw what they were to become in the 1970s and 80s. That's not a socialist critique. How ludicrous to make such a charge against a woman who spent her life fighting against government bureaucracy.

[tintintabulations]

I don't think so. Opposing LOMEX was just part of her life's work. With DLGAC she gave form to what a lot of people were thinking at the time. Plus she had a lot of support in high places (the Rockefeller Foundation, Lewis Mumford, William H. Whyte).

Did you/do you really support LOMEX? I like Jacobs's solution for traffic: ban private cars and allow only taxis and commercial vans and trucks into Manhattan below ~86th Street.

[malika585]

@jajogluck Building another road, not to mention an expressway would only encourage people to drive their cars. So there would be one person in one car going to work. A better idea is to improve and encourage use of public transport so there is less traffic and less need for more roads and expressways to accommodate all the cars.

[matt417]

@jajogluck Putting aside your terrible spelling mistakes, you have absolutely no concept of the intricate social networks and systems that are necessary in order for an urban city to work. Freeways and Highways have destroyed countless neighborhoods throughout the United States. We should all be thankful that some of the neighborhoods of Manhattan were spared this fate when the expressway was rejected. People > Cars.

[jajogluck]

Jane Jacobs is sadly the greatest tragedy for the nyc. millions of people waste countless hours in traffic because of her opposition to the lower manhattan express way. Are you kidding me? Does anyone now doubt that this was a mistake of monstorus proportion NOT to build the LOMEX in the 60's? It's not even a question of city vs. suburb as many pundits like to frame it! It' a question of convenience for the mojortiy of people who happen to have the need to drive through lower manhattan.

[RalfLippold]

Memories race back to Welwyn Garden City where our family spent one summer :-)

[RalfLippold]

#s21 ist kein Einzelfall, wie New York zeigt!!

[ohno2112]

One man responsable for putting fear into new york city .

[jenn111s]

love him.wish will be more people like him.

[CTyankee4277]

@weedipikia -

And he also neglected Harlem. He built 255 playgrounds in Manhattan - only one was in Harlem. When he built Riverside Park, it ended at 125th street - where Morningside Heights ends and Harlem begins. Which meant those residents still had to deal with the sounds of railroads cars, the smells, etc. Nice, huh?

[CTyankee4277]

Moses did get things done, but more often than not he broke the law to do so. Anyone who's read The Power Broker will know what I'm talking about. This is the man who degraded Sunset Park, destroyed East Tremont with the Cross BX Expwy and neglected public transit. What a shyster this man was. Thank God he didn't build that Cross Manhattan EXPWY he wanted, it would have destroyed the neighborhood.

[gopconservative78]

She was a communist and wanted to fuck Stalin