The Architect’s Newspaper devoted a bunch of column inches yesterday to the issue of what to do about cleaning up the Gowanus Canal, and it’s not too hard to figure out where the publication stands. The article starts by pointing out that Mayor Bloomberg has been talking about cleaning up the canal since he first came to office but it was only when the threat of the waterway getting Superfund status reared its head earlier this year that he started acting with any sense of urgency. The paper also calls into question the mayor’s claim that a clean-up by the city would have more financial resources and take less time than a Superfund effort, and leads up to the accusation that the mayor’s plan is nothing more than an effort to help real estate developers in the short-term at the expense of the neighborhood in the long-term. Let’s see where readers stand on this one.

Twice as Smelly [The Architect's Newspaper]