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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Feb 13 00:15:04 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Feb 12 18:16:06 2007. You can find just as many counterarguments of this bridge myth if you search the internet, just as you can find the myth saying it's true. Don't take everything you read as fact. You are allowed to take the Power Broker with a grain of salt as has been recomended."In social studies of technology, as in many other scientific disciplines, highly persuasive similes are at work: pious stories, seemingly reaped from research, suggesting certain general theoretical insights. Variously adapted, they are handed down: in the process, they acquire almost doctrinal unassailability. One such parable, which has been retold in technology and urban studies for a long time, is the story of Robert Moses' low bridges, preventing the poor and the black of New York from gaining access to Long Island resorts and beaches. The story turns out to be counterfactual, but even if a small myth is disenchanted, it serves a purpose: to resituate positions in the old debate about the control of social processes via buildings and other technical artefacts - or, more generally, about material form and social content. Here's just one I found in a quick google search. You can skim true it fast, and it basically says that Caro's (and others) claim on the bridges is hogwash. You can find many on both sides of the fence. (And I don't mean sites like wikipedia where people can add anything). But remember....buses weren't what they are today when the parkways were being built, so the claim is very likely counterfactual. Remember, the parkways began being built in I think 1924....hardly "bus time". |
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