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Robert Moses Symposium Panel: Moses and His Challenges

11:10 PM EST on February 14, 2007

A panel discussion moderated by Lizabeth Cohen and featuring the authors of four papers:

    • Henry D. Fetter, Revising the Revisionists: Public Subsidyand Dodger Stadium in Brooklyn
    • David Michalski, Robert Moses Meets the Mighty Niagara: Aesthetic Collisions at Empire’s Edge
    • Robert Fishman, Revolt of the Urbs: 5th Avenue Opposition
    • David A. Johnson, Robert Moses and the 1929 Regional Plan of New York and its Environs
Aaron Donovan
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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