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Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion Politics

Opinion: Shut Up Already About Moses vs. Jacobs

"Both Moses, the 'master builder' of the urban renewal era, and Jacobs, the grassroots champion of small-scale urbanism, have left deep and lasting imprints on our city. But today, the…

ByHoward Slatkin 0Comments

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Housing and Homelessness

Housing Events in NYC This Week: Jane’s Walk, Council Budget Hearings

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Jane Jacobs, Broken Windows and the Battle Over Public Space

Both conservative law-and-order and liberal-minded urban planning leave poor communities of color in the crosshairs. Public spaces, a theoretically shared space, become battlefields.

ByJosmar Trujillo 2Comments

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Housing and Homelessness Opinion

America's Cities Shaped (and Mishaped) by Rules

Zoning laws, building codes and other regulations can seem like bureaucratic obscurities. But, says this author, they have a powerful—and often negative—impact on urban areas.

ByEmily Talen 0Comments

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ARTS and CULTURE Government Housing and Homelessness

Moses, Jacobs And You: The Battle For Gotham

A history of the philosophical battle between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, told by an author who, wisely, took it personally.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Government Housing and Homelessness

Whose Dreams Will Decide?

The push for neighborhoods to have more than a voice.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

Five Boroughs. One City. No Plan.

Is the city’s failure to plan a plan for failure?

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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ARTS and CULTURE Government Housing and Homelessness

Waking the Dead

Lomex. Robert Moses. Westway. Jane Jacobs. What New York’s planning past tells us about its future.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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ARTS and CULTURE

Into the Wild: Nature's NYC

A photographic survey of the city’s parkland reveals verdant, untamed places most New Yorkers don’t know are theirs.

ByRoberta Brandes Gratz 0Comments

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Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

All Together Now: Toward A Better Land Use Process

An expert in local “progressive community-based planning” explains what that means and how to do it.

ByNicholas Jahr 0Comments