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Re: Housing Projects Re: Jane Jacobs Re: Cross Manhattan expressway

Posted by SMAZ on Wed Jul 25 06:23:05 2007, in response to Housing Projects Re: Jane Jacobs Re: Cross Manhattan expressway, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jul 24 20:22:09 2007.

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Great pictures. That is precisely my point. (and yours) People think that today's housing projects are garbage. If they only knew what was there before and how people were living (if you wanna call it living)! The flight to greener pastures was inevitable to anyone who could afford it. After the war most people could indeed afford to do so and they did. The blight elimination and urban renewal projects that Moses built actually kept many people living in the city and were initially targeted to middle and lower middle class people. Of course after a few years many of these people were also able to afford to move to something bigger and better and they were replaced by newer immigrants and other poor people (aka "those people") creating a snowball effect and this happened everywhere in America. However unlike other cities, Moses' other works kept NYC relevent and vibrant even though it went through a rough patch for a while. That rough patch was brought by politicians incompetence and not by Robert Moses.

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