Harvard Design Magazine - The Return of Urban Renewal:
"For many years, New York City refrained from any semblance of comprehensive planning. Even the four megaprojects of the 1980s and 1990s—Battery Park City, the Javits Convention Center, and Times Square redevelopment, all in Manhattan, and MetroTech in central Brooklyn—represented isolated endeavors rather than parts of an overriding vision. Suddenly, however, the current mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, and his deputy mayor for economic development, Daniel L. Doctoroff, have ambitions for remaking much of the city on a scale comparable to the remaking overseen by Robert Moses in the 1940s and '50s."
