Olmsted vs Moses: should a city breathe or move?
OLMSTED vs ROBERT MOSES go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.
A city needs lungs, sir. I carved meadows and winding paths so the weary clerk could forget the grid and simply breathe.
Breathing is fine, Frederick, but people must get somewhere. I built the parkways, the bridges, the beaches millions actually reach.
Reach them by bulldozing whole neighborhoods? Your ribbons of concrete divide the very people my greenswards were meant to gather.
Your greensward is a lovely postcard, but I moved a metropolis into the modern age. When you build for the future, you take a meat axe to the present.
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