Thursday, February 12, 2009

Greater Good Seminar Prep Paper

What is the greater good and what should be sacrificed in its name?
Seminar Prep Assignment Sheet:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dgj6z8rr_8dv2zhvch&hl=en

This sheet will serve as a guide for you when you are writing your paper. Please read it carefully. Your paper should focus on our essential question, “what is really the greater good and what should be sacrificed in that name?” You should use the Atlantic Yards as a case study. In other words, do you think the Atlantic Yards Project is in the interests of the “greater good of Brooklyn?” If so, what should be sacrificed in its name? While your paper must highlight the Atlantic Yards Project you may also refer to other examples from our study of the essential question. You must submit a completed seminar prep chart with your paper. This chart will help you to look back through all the sources that we have studied so far.


The following is a list of websites that have information in support of the Atlantic Yards Project. We realize that we have presented a one sided view of the project. This is due to the sources that we have access to. You must include information from at least one of these websites. It may be in the form of you refuting an argument in favor of the project, or you may feel that the project is for the greater good of Brooklyn. In this case you may wish to include information from more than one of these websites.

Pro Atlantic Yards:

Atlantic Yards Project home page http://www.atlanticyards.com/

Empire State Development Corporation http://www.empire.state.ny.us/AtlanticYards/

Acorn supports Atlantic Yards http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/viewarticle.cfm?article_id=1953

BUILD web site https://mail.nycboe.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.buildbrooklyn.org/index.php?sect_id=ay%26page_id=post

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