The Just City by Fainstein Susan S.;

Author:Fainstein, Susan S.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8014-6218-4
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)

New York after 2001

The aftereffects of the World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001, and the national recession of that year comprised a surprisingly short-lived setback to the city’s economy (Chernick 2005). Quick economic recovery emboldened the new administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg to embark on an ambitious redevelopment program, harkening back to the early days of urban renewal (Fainstein 2005c). Under his hard-driving deputy mayor for economic development, Daniel Doctoroff, Bloomberg launched a number of megaprojects and framed a plan labeled PlaNYC 2030, which focused on environmental sustainability.29

The individual projects differed from Moses’s urban renewal efforts in being rationalized in the name of economic development and environmental improvement rather than the elimination of blight and slum clearance. In their physical manifestations, which in many cases incorporated mixed uses and retention of the street grid, they constituted an absorption of Jane Jacobs’s invective against the dullness created by city planning under urban renewal. But, even though they were not modernist in their physical forms, they were in their functional aims.30 As in the first stage of urban renewal, they represented the imprint of a master builder rather than community-based planning. Participation by citizens was restricted to their testimony at public hearings, listening to presentations by the plans’ progenitors, and the provision of advice by the community board for the affected area. Beyond these minimal requirements under the Uniform Land Use Review Process (ULURP),31 no legislation imposed community input. Among the largest projects in terms of public expenditure was the construction of four sports facilities: new stadiums for the Yankees and Mets baseball teams; a football stadium for the Jets; and a basketball arena for the Nets.32 The development of the new Yankee Stadium provided a particularly egregious example of the use of economic growth as a rationalization to disguise injustice.

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