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I was shocked recently to hear a young female colleague extolling the virtues of Robert Moses, the Mephistophelean bureaucrat who devoted decades to imposing modernism's biggest and baddest desecrations on New York.

"You have to admire him," she breathed. "Just for scale and audacity. For sheer size."

Do you, though? Is size, like, it again?

It's no mere academic question. I'm conscious, as my friend speaks, of the vast crop of urban renewals transforming inner Sydney - which is odd, since we're constantly told NSW is a rustbucket state.

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Maybe it's just that building runs counter-cyclical. But, whatever the reason (and I don't think it's me), billions are being ploughed in within walking distance of my front door. Cranes, in large family groups, on every horizon.

Like most things, city-making shifts with the ebb and flow of fashion. Robert Moses was a smoothe Ivy Leaguer who epitomised modernism's macho obsessions with speed, size and gargantuan renewal.

Although never elected to public office, he drove more bridge, motorway, slum-clearance and housing developments than anyone before or since. Actively opposing public transport, he assiduously remade New York, city and state, for the car.

Then, aptly enough, Moses' symbolic successor was a woman, an economics writer whose sole power was her pen. Jane Jacobs, a leading Moses accuser, emerged as flagbearer for everything urbanists now hold dear. Tirelessly championing the small, intimate, old, ordinary, communal and local, she gradually, over the next 50 years, made urbanism the new black.

Taking a walk around inner Sydney, you might easily think Moses had made a comeback. Adding up to easily $15 billion, there are projects on a scale to make Moses drool: $6 billion at Barangaroo; $2 billion at Central Park; a billion redoing Darling Harbour, not counting the new IMAX; another billion implementing UTS's masterplan (including the Gehry); $2 billion at Victoria Park and the same again at Green Square Town Centre. And then there's the rest of the Green Square area, several times as big again - and, bigger still, the Erskineville-Alexandria-Danks Street phenomenon. Harold Park too.

That's some shiny rustbucket. The three big ones alone - Barangaroo, Central Park, Green Square - represent some 50,000 workers and 80,000 residents in a combined area about the size of Hyde Park.

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