LRT: Langdon Winner wrote an incredible piece, "Do Artefacts Have Politics?" over 30 years ago. It is as relevant today as it has ever been.
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To think that his message still needs to be heard, that the titans in our field need to hear it, is both frustrating and energizing.
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what should I know about them? And parkway means highway yes?
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tl;dr: Robert Moses built 190+ bridges with low clearance so black people, dependent on buses, couldn't get to Jones Beach.
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He also deliberately built a section of the Cross Bronx parkway so it would displace 1500 jewish people, needlessly.
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Is there a good place to read more other than that piece? And where could i find it?
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The Power Broker is a heavy but interesting biography. Also, if you're an MVC subscriber I reference it in my Q3 piece
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I'll definitely check it out. No clue what MVC is
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Model View Culture :)
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- This sounds really interesting.
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