| Mobile homes, a disappearing act
No one can stop owners of mobile-home parks from selling their land to the highest bidder. But public officials are trying to find a way to help the people most affected: low-income, elderly and disabled renters.
Those officials, representing city, county and state governments, brainstormed Monday to find solutions to the widening problem of the parks being sold out from under their residents.
Since 2001, eight such parks in the county have shut down as the land transitioned into other, more lucrative uses. A ninth community - Pioneer Mobile Home Park just off 900 South along 200 East in Salt Lake City - is expected to be one of the next to shut down.
Most recently, the 156-unit Meadows Mobile Home Park in upscale Cottonwood Heights was cleared out to make way for large, upscale homes, and Midvale's 26-unit White Manor park is emptying for new townhomes.
CESO to CVED: Sustaining Canadian Aid Gains through a Local NGO
"It's gonna take a lot of hard work, sweat equity on the part of the organization. They have to know where they are, how to get there, come up with a plan, set their mind to it, assemble the assets, assemble the resources required to do that," Mr. Carroll said. "If one of them is CVED that would be great, but CVED cannot do it for them, they must be prepared to devote their time, their effort and energy to achieve their goals themselves." To further ensure the sustainability of the success which the project has so far attained, CESO and PBSP are now preparing a detailed 3.5 year plan covering the last 18 months of the BAP and maximize the potential of CVED and two years of CVED post BAP. "The plan will outline the folding in of BAP's operations into CVED, the human resource requirement, and the structure of CVED within PBSP," said Arun Bauri, CIDA development officer for Indonesia, the Philippines and South-East Asia.
Moses as tyrant
Without Le Corbusier and other Modernist visionaries, there could be no Robert Moses. Corbu, as he is familiarly known, adored cars, speed, high-rise towers, superhighways and superblocks. So did Moses. Corbu dreamed of clearing cities to the ground and starting anew. But it was New York's Moses who executed what the Modernists only imagined in their wildest fantasies. To Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson, the historians who put together a three-part, two-borough New York exhibition that reexamines Moses' legacy, his astounding run of completed projects was largely for the good of the region. In "Robert Moses and the Modern City," they take the heretofore heretical view that New York needed a wise tyrant to push the creaky metropolis into a lifesaving infrastructural upgrade. "Had Moses never lived," Jackson asserts, "America's greatest city might have deteriorated beyond the capabilities of anyone to return it to prosperity." It's a contentious statement from a contentious catalog that was written as a counterpunch to Robert A.
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