[ Big Plans] is a book that should be read by all those people, and there seem to be more of them as week chases week, who are thinking about the fate of lower Manhattan right now. -- Joe Mysak Bloomberg News Kenneth Kolson has lots of material: Some of what's been built in cities lately is astonishing and not in a good way. -- Anthony Flint Boston Globe Kolson is a passionate critic of urban schemes, with well-founded skepticism about the role rationality has played in designing them. -- Gail Lee Dubrow Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 2004 A fascinating read about the utopian goal of Big Plans and the dystopian reality of lived experience. Design Issues 2004
