Paul Rudolph I feel the Le Corbusier's Villa Savoie Poissy, France, 1929 demonstrated the sense of continuity of space, the unfolding space, in an admirable wayA new resident to The Annex, Jane Jacobs, had been instrumental in blocking the Lower Manhattan Expressway in New York City before moving to Canada in 1969 According to Jacobs, it was the construction of expressways into major American cities that led to an exodus of the middle class, and the death of oncevibrant downtown coresThe Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would link New Jersey to Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island via the Holland Tunnel and the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges, was conceived of by the influential (and controversial) New York City urban planner Robert Moses in the 1940sAfter years of public debate, in 1967 the Ford Foundation commissioned Rudolph to produce a speculative study of the West Side Highway Wikipedia Lower manhattan expressway project