Robert Moses Impact On New York City
After the birth of America, the American cities are progressing with great speed. The New York City is one of them, which is known as a man made city in the world. Due to its significant amount of New York City’s amazing parks, unique roads, magnificent playgrounds, and recreation centers make it one of the desirable place to live and suitable place to visit for every human being around the globe. However, this city did not transformed overnight, it comes to today position due to the great work done by our great urban planners, who dare to visualize dreams and make them into reality. Robert Moses is one of them, who was not an engineer nor a design consultant, rather he was an idealist political science major. He was known for his great contribution
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Due to his numerous ideas and funding from the federal government, hopeless people were able see the ray of bright sun light. Great depression was the darkest history of the United States, which started in the United States after the stock market crash in October 1929. Many progressing U.S cities came down to their knees, due to the worst impact from the great depression. For instance, the city like New York, which was one of the economic muscles for the United States broke into parts. Cities were transferring into shitty town, and people were out of work. However, Moses saw this was as an opportunity to fulfill his ambitious dream projects. After he became the cities park commissioner 1934 and the boss of all public works, he used the federal money to start his dream projects around the city, which was able to put people on work. Moreover, he did not only focus on putting people to work, but also he cared about the potential impact of those projects on future generation, and how those projects would help to decorate the New York. In statistics showed that he assigned approximately 1900 architectures to work, who supervised almost 70000 workers. They built parks, swimming pool, zoo, golf court, playgrounds etc. around the city. These all-challenging and outstanding development projects save the city during great depression, and did not allow it to
Due to his numerous ideas and funding from the federal government, hopeless people were able see the ray of bright sun light. Great depression was the darkest history of the United States, which started in the United States after the stock market crash in October 1929. Many progressing U.S cities came down to their knees, due to the worst impact from the great depression. For instance, the city like New York, which was one of the economic muscles for the United States broke into parts. Cities were transferring into shitty town, and people were out of work. However, Moses saw this was as an opportunity to fulfill his ambitious dream projects. After he became the cities park commissioner 1934 and the boss of all public works, he used the federal money to start his dream projects around the city, which was able to put people on work. Moreover, he did not only focus on putting people to work, but also he cared about the potential impact of those projects on future generation, and how those projects would help to decorate the New York. In statistics showed that he assigned approximately 1900 architectures to work, who supervised almost 70000 workers. They built parks, swimming pool, zoo, golf court, playgrounds etc. around the city. These all-challenging and outstanding development projects save the city during great depression, and did not allow it to