"At the very moment… that we have torn down our elevated railways, because of their spoilage of urban space, our highway engineers are using vast sums of public money to restore the same nuisance in an even noisier and more insistent form. But what is Brooklyn to the highway engineer - except a place to go through rapidly, at whatever necessary sacrifice of peace and amenity by its inhabitants?"
- Lewis Mumford, The New Yorker (1959)
Did you ever wonder how we got this way? Bikescape examines the legacy of Robert Moses, the man who manipulated government to conform to his vision of the modern city.
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The Gowanis Expressway as it looks today
Transportation Alternatives and the community have sued to prevent the reconstruction of this highway in favor of a tunnel.
Robert Caro's book about Moses, The Power Broker
Robert Moses' Response to Robert Caro's The Power Broker
Jack Thurston's archive of bike shows on London's resonance fm radio. He's got some of his shows mp3'd on his blog. Jonathan at Podbike tells me he's now got a podcast feed.
Cars by The Desperate Bicycles and others of thier songs can be found here
(Gosh, I wish I could get rid of these italics...)
-j
Friday, May 13, 2005
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What a great show this was!
Jack now has a feed button on his Bike Show weblog. This should pick up the mp3 file from each future show.
Jon Oates
www.podbike.com
Thanks for your kind words! I'm really happy to be getting some good responses. I was expecting to get corrected on lots of historical facts I might have exaggerated or just gotten plain wrong! I heard the pinataland segment on npr a few weeks ago. What was the song about Moses? I heard a few good songs from their web site but not that one.
I'm at a loss for what to do this week. Luckily there's always btw day. My wife Karen just gave me a hall pass to race in the scavenger scramble this weekend too. I guess there's always material...
As for the blogroute thing, please sign me up. I guess I need to give you a reason why i like biking. I'll have to think about that but my favorite blogs are yours (of course) and Jack Thurston's.
Maybe I'll meet you for real sometime soon. Thursday at 111 Minna for the bike away from work party perhaps?
-j
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