Re: eminent domain

Andy F wrote:

Robert Moses’s deliberately making arteries in NYC impassible to busses

One of Bob Fitch’s great contributions was his essay on the 1929 New York plan from the Regional Plan Association. He showed that all the expressways attributed to Moses were actually laid out in the RPA scheme - auto-centered suburbanization, planned by real-estate intellectuals. All these paeans to urban planning in the abstract seem indifferent to its actual history in the US.

Doug

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