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In Remembering a Long-Abandoned Project, Nostalgia for Grand Plans

December 1, 2010 by Next American City
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Towers hover over Lower Manhattan in a model depicting the LoMEX project. Credit: The Drawing CenterThere would be, according to the LoMEX plan, a lengthy Y-shaped super-highway running the width of Lower Manhattan, from the Holland Tunnel to the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges. Thousands of cars would stream through the city on these... [read more]

Interview with Anthony Flint, Author of “Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on America’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City”

January 12, 2010 by The Dirt ASLA
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Anthony Flint, author of “Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City” (Random House, 2009), is director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think tank in Cambridge, Mass. A journalist for 20 years, primarily at The Boston Globe, he is also author... [read more]