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"Christopher Poole ... seems to be going through a Robert Moses phase. On the nightstand in his New York City apartment is a copy of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, a 1,300-page biography of the mid-20th-century urban planner who, in pursuing his vision of a modernized New York, destroyed one neighborhood after another. A book of photos on Poole's coffee table documents the Moses-era demolition of midtown Manhattan's vast and graceful old Penn Station. ('Gut-wrenching,' says Poole.) And on a recent Thursday afternoon, as he walked to work past Washington Square Park and observed the sweeping renovations under way there - a controversial relandscaping imposed by current city planners in the face of heavy local opposition - he saw parallels with the old autocrat's imperious approach to such projects."