I've often had opportunity to muse that the real legacy of Robert Moses

[conuly]

is that people still complain about him decades after his death, but I still didn't expect to encounter it twice in two days. (All complaints about Robert Moses are undoubtedly valid.)

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[altamira16]

No one ever reads this book because it is 1300 pages long, but a lot of people sure talk about it. Robert Moses did a lot of urban planning in New York, and something about the bridges in New York being short, so the busses can't get to the beaches.

People who speak fondly of Olmsted usually need to knock it off too.

[conuly]

To be fair to Robert Moses, I don't think he was more racist than his peers.

[altamira16]

Yeah, urban planners of the early 20th century were racist. When someone points out the racism, you realize that it was there all along, and you never noticed, which is how racism works. I think Vox did some videos on redlining.

[foms]

I read it.