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  • Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the Museum of Natural History to unveil PlaNYC: A Greener, Greater New York.(Michael Appleton/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
    Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the Museum of Natural History to unveil PlaNYC: A Greener, Greater New York.(Michael Appleton/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
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    How Michael Bloomberg Greenwashed New York City

    The former mayor framed rezoning for development as environmental strategy under PlaNYC. It’s not adding up.

    byHeather Rogers
  • (Robert Moses' Lower Manhattan Expressway Plan)
    (Robert Moses' Lower Manhattan Expressway Plan)
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    Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses: The Opera

    The 1960s battle for Lower Manhattan gets the ultimate dramatic rendering

    byStephanie Butnick
  • (Paul Warchol/Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park [right]; aerial photo [left] Amiaga)
    (Paul Warchol/Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park [right]; aerial photo [left] Amiaga)
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    Louis Kahn’s Timeless Vision for an FDR Memorial on Roosevelt Island in New York

    The great architect’s park, designed in 1974, finds kinship with Roman and Egyptian ruins, with their silent, powerful massing

    byMichael Tower
  • Jane Jacobs in Washington Square Park, 1963.(Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images)
    Jane Jacobs in Washington Square Park, 1963.(Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images)
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    City Girl

    For the 50th anniversary edition of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, her publisher remembers the urban activist

    byJason Epstein
  • Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Culver El Estates development.(Collage: Tablet Magazine; hasidim photo: Flickr/Ismael Alonso; map: NYC Department of City Planning)
    Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Culver El Estates development.(Collage: Tablet Magazine; hasidim photo: Flickr/Ismael Alonso; map: NYC Department of City Planning)
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    Home Front

    Is it wrong to build publicly subsidized housing designed for New York’s ultra-Orthodox community?

    byMark Bergen
  • Udi, the Gecko Cafe proprietor, has struggled to draw customers to his location in Beer Sheva’s Old City.(Daniella Cheslow)
    Udi, the Gecko Cafe proprietor, has struggled to draw customers to his location in Beer Sheva’s Old City.(Daniella Cheslow)
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    Shopping Sprawl

    Are Israel’s suburban malls destroying its urban centers?

    byDaniella Cheslow
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