Thursday, April 6, 2006

Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City



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The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But consummate power broker Robert Moses, the father of many of New York’s most monumental development projects, thought neighborhoods like Greenwich Village were badly... More >>

Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

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