Sublime

For nine years, Robert Moses had been seeking control of the Tunnel Authority. Now he had control. He had been unable to prevent the construction of the Authority’s Queens-Midtown and Brooklyn-Battery tunnels, but now those tunnels—and their revenues—were his.

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In an arrangement at least tacitly approved by three Governors—an arrangement lasting for at least seventeen years after the war—“Moses had the say,” McMorran says, “over who got the contracts on all New York City [area] jobs.” And not just on contracts. Moses had the say—absolute authority—to decide not only who should design and build all highway

When thinking about territory, Hall categorized space into three genres of design: fixed feature space, semi-fixed feature space, and informal (or dynamic) feature space. Fixed feature space is typically characterized by immovable design. Semi-fixed feature space offers furnishings and boundaries that can be moved with varying degrees of effort. In