Robert Moses
Robert Moses
Robert Moseswas a city planner who worked mainly in the New York metropolitan area. Known as the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, Rockland County, and Westchester County, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris, and was one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEngineer
Date of Birth18 December 1888
CountryUnited States of America
Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake
Frank Lloyd Wright's inverted oatmeal dish and silo with their awkward cantilevering, their jaundiced skin and the ingenious spiral ramp leading down past the abstractions which mirror the tortured maladjustments of our time.
He continued to be and infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy
When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax,
Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.
I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.
Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.
Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
Critics build nothing.