"The winning design for a 40-acre park that would unfold across the southern half of Governors Island is not the kind of grand public-works project the city once championed. But in an age when developers regularly usurp the government’s planning role, it reflects the kind of imaginative, civic-minded thinking that can restore our faith in city and state leaders," says Nicolai Ouroussoff in the N.Y. Times (12/20/07). His is one of two articles (the other is by Robin Pogrebin) in today's Times about the design for Governor's Island in New York Harbor. The two stories discuss a number of interesting questions about the design as a "cultural destination," a "whimsical" landscape, one that is "humble in scale but big on ambition." Both are worth reading. www.nytimes.com.

   

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