Banality of the city parks stemmed chiefly from lack of time

Evidence

It was lack of time more than any other single reason that accounted for an astonishing fact about many New York City park projects: they were banal. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 2088

Categorization

• QUESTION: Caro asserts lack of time as ‘more than any other single reason’ — but his own pages implicate lack of interest in smallness and contempt for the classes served, which muddles the causal claim.
• XREF: connects to: Time pressure drives designers to copy old solutions to new problems — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 2091; Depth of knowledge about public space varies with time spent in it. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 697

Broader Connections

• Depth of knowledge about public space varies with time spent in it. #corroborates (0.75) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 697