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
He continued to be and infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy
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.
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.
Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
Critics build nothing.