How the Coastline Became A Place To Put The Poor

“How the Coastline Became a Place to Put the Poor” by Jonathan Mahler composed an enlightening article depicting the pattern of buildings substantial scale extending by the shorelines of Long Island, Red Hook, and Coney Island. Urban designers trusted that building venture structures by the shoreline was more practical, however soon discovered that it brought on more damage than great. The Coney Island, Long Island, and the Rockaways are cases in which Robert Mosses vision of New York to be the city without bounds. The venture structures turned into a safe house for wrongdoing, poverty, and obliteration. Robert Moses, an acclaimed urban engineer in mid-twenties century, viewed it would be more effective for the city to move destitute individuals to these “projects”, which is the reason he was clearing ghettos and building ventures in the city, manufacturing these skyscraper extends as an approach to migrate the “ghettos”. Sadly, his vision of building the city was not as effective as he thought. We see the negative outcomes today. Areas by the shoreline had a lot of terrains, having much open and potential condo and summer resorts opened doors for white collar class New Yorkers. Ignoring how the other half lived. This was his method for attempting to dispose of road neighborhoods and take into account white collar class natives with cash. By pushing destitute families to an inaccessible range that can be unsafe and hazardous didn’t make a difference to him. Giving the individuals who required additional help, a rooftop over their heads was basically like the fleece they put over individuals’ eyes from seeing what they were truly trying to attempting and succeeding which was to dispose of the ghettos of New York. Moses saw the Rockaways as both an image of the past and a legitimization for his own forceful way to deal with urban recharging, to building what he imagined as the city without bounds.

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