Before "smart cities," politicians, developers, architects and ecologists talked about "livable cities," then "digital cities," then "intelligent cities".
The Colorado movers — politicians, developers, lobbyists — regard Danny with amused condescension, but Huston, in his sheepish way, makes him the moral center of the movie.
May they also, somehow, represent a defeat for the corrupt politicians, developers, and assorted buccaneers who have made the Games, and Brazil, their particular feeding ground.
How sad if Lower Manhattan were rebuilt by a committee of risk-averse politicians, developers and architects whose reverence is also for the past.
While politicians, developers, bankers, architects, and almost everyone else quarrelled over the future of Ground Zero, the rest of lower Manhattan, as well as most of the rest of the city, quietly pulled itself together.
Still, let's make one thing clear: the extraordinary popular music madness of British tower blocks was a collective one, with politicians, developers, architects and even the people themselves compulsively nodding to the beat.
With politicians, developers and business leaders already considering ways to fill the void, most speakers made passionate bids to slow down and rethink all assumptions about reshaping the site.
Throughout the UK, community activists will no doubt continue to demand that politicians, developers and the whole planning system be forced to commit to working with local people before any further development is authorised.
Goldberger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, recounts the trade center's emergence in Lower Manhattan; describes three years of proposals and counterproposals for rebuilding the 16-acre site; and introduces the full cast of politicians, developers, architects and city planners competing to shape "the most challenging urban-design problem of the 21st century".
How does London fare: In Lamé's defence, it often seems like the various competing groups in London – business owners, residents, politicians, developers, law makers – aren't even talking to others on their own side, never mind opponents.
