Today's history lesson

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So apparently there was one man who practically ran infrastructure development in New York city during the 1930s through '60s. He's typically portrayed as more interested in power, especially control over what gets built where and the use of public funds, than (say) building communities. He also favored the car over public transportation, with associated biased against poorer demographics. Also, when other cities followed his model, it's debatable whether he contributed to the spread of suburbia and the decline of the inner city or if he was just a product of the times. I find this interesting given, with growing urbanization, how cities affect various things like transportation (and thus industry and energy) and education (and whether your kids can really have a better life than you). Of course, his reputation was solidified in a negative light by a pulitzer winning biography, The Power Broker. His name was Robert Moses.

I learned this from comics. And wikipedia.