Last week, we attended a forum on urbanism held in Goldman Sach’s brand new building in downtown Manhattan. The forum specifically discussed the role of the mega project and its significance on the future of American urban development. The panel included Daniel Libeskind, Richard Kahan (the former Chairman and CEO of Battery Park City Authority) and Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic for The New Yorker.
A quick background of the origin of the “mega project” was discussed with the panelists noting that the mega-project is not an invention of our time, but rather an invention of New York. Grand Central Terminal and Rockefeller Center formed early examples for mega projects, and from their models sprang Battery Park City, and potentially Atlantic Yards.
