Robert Moses Symposium Panel: Moses’ Vision in Concrete & Film
A panel discussion moderated by Tom Finkelpearl, director of the Queens Museum of Art, featuring the authors of four papers:
10:57 PM EST on February 14, 2007
A panel discussion moderated by Tom Finkelpearl, director of the Queens Museum of Art, featuring the authors of four papers:
- Blagovesta Momchedikova, The Panorama of the City of New York: Robert Moses’ Gigantic Visions of the City as Reflected in the Miniature Metropolis in the Museum
- Marta Gutman, The Place of Play: Robert Moses and the WPA Swimming Pools in New York City
- Jonathan Kuhn, Documenting the Moses Era: The Filter of the Photographer’s Lens
- Kristin Feders, Robert Moses, the 1964/65 New York World’s Fair, and the Afterlife of the Park (provisional title)
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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