{"id":1310,"date":"2007-01-24T11:37:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T16:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-city-and-a-man\/"},"modified":"2007-01-24T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T16:37:45","slug":"the-city-and-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-city-and-a-man","title":{"rendered":"The City and a Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

The links are going to go dead in a few days, so if you’re interested in Robert Moses, historical revisionism and crypto-Oedipal conflicts, and the landscape of New York (and who isn’t?), you need to check out these two articles from the NYObserver<\/a> and the NYTimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First, though, you should read the Atlantic Yards Report post<\/a> on this revisionism (which led me to the articles), and how it’s being used (sorta) to justify Ratner’s plans for Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Oh, and read The Power Broker<\/a>, which is one of the greatest books I’ve ever read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The links are going to go dead in a few days, so if you’re interested in Robert Moses, historical revisionism and crypto-Oedipal conflicts, and the landscape of New York (and who isn’t?), you need to check out these two articles from the NYObserver and the NYTimes. First, though, you should read the Atlantic Yards Report … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “The City and a Man”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-suburbs","category-urban-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-l8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12729,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-354-peter-kuper","url_meta":{"origin":1310,"position":0},"title":"Episode 354 – Peter Kuper","author":"Gil","date":"December 17, 2019","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 354: Peter Kuper \"Heart of Darkness deserves to be canonical because it addresses through art what it means to be civilized and what it means to be savage, and touches on things happening now in our world: the madness of power.\" Political artist\/illustrator Peter Kuper rejoins the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/peterhodcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C500&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/peterhodcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C500&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/peterhodcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C500&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/peterhodcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C500&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/peterhodcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C500&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2220,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/this-is-getting-ridiculous","url_meta":{"origin":1310,"position":1},"title":"This is getting ridiculous","author":"Gil","date":"August 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, the NY Sun (Official Newspaper of Gil Roth) managed to put out more articles of interest to me than any other paper would in a month: Revising our views on Arcimboldo in light of the Allegorical Head of the Four Seasons Revising our views on neoconservatism via World Affairs\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2139,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/its-always-the-end-of-the-world-for-somebody","url_meta":{"origin":1310,"position":2},"title":"It’s always the end of the world for somebody","author":"Gil","date":"July 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Courtesy of Hit & Run, here's a neat article from World Affairs on how the current crop of \"America-in-decline\" books & articles is nothing new: As with the pessimistic intellectual troughs that followed the Depression, Vietnam, and the stagflation of the late 1970s and early 1980s, there is a tendency\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (explicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1925,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-panamanchurian-candidate","url_meta":{"origin":1310,"position":3},"title":"The Panamanchurian Candidate","author":"Gil","date":"February 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"John McCain: unnatural-born American? 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