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The Power Broker #9: Majora Carter

99% Invisible

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Infrastructure and Individual Impact

This chapter examines the complicated power dynamics and bureaucratic challenges in urban development, focusing on a key figure's pursuit of grand infrastructure projects at the expense of community well-being. It critiques the authoritarian tendencies in decision-making and emphasizes the emotional toll of infrastructural choices through the lens of Robert Moses' controversial Cross Bronx Expressway.

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