City Planners Realize Windfalls for Developers and Oppose Inclusionary Zoning Alex Schafran Planning in New York City : Walls that Divide, Bridges that Unite Tom Angotti Planning for All New Yorkers: The Campaign for Community-Based Planning Eve Baron Olympic Glory […]
Olympic Glory or Fool’s Gold?: New Yorkers Boo Stadium and Midtown Plan
By Eugene J. Patron Just a stone’s throw from Manhattan ’s famed Theatre District, the curtain has risen on one of the city’s major urban redevelopment dramas. The line of community and civic groups opposing the massive Hudson Yards plan […]
Planning for All New Yorkers:The Campaign for Community-Based Planning
By Eve Baron The year 2001 was a landmark one for electoral politics in New York City. Due to the first-time imposition of term limits, two-thirds of the City Council’s incumbent members would lose their seats, making room for the […]
Planning in New York City: Walls that Divide, Bridges that Unite
By Tom Angotti As the preeminent global center of capitalism, New York City thrives on the free flow of capital. But it’s not so liberal when it comes to the movement of people. More and more walls are going up […]
City Planners Realize Windfalls for Developers and Oppose Inclusionary Zoning
By Alex Schafran New York City ’s planners are rezoning land left and right to make way for new housing. They refuse to adopt, however, a tried-and-true method of city planning to ensure that some of the new housing goes […]