Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (983 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812981367 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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But, says Flint (This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America), who is now at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Moses's tarnished reputation has been undergoing rehabilitation recently as cities realize the value of reliable infrastructure. Lucid and articulate, Flint's account will appeal more to urban planners, policy wonks and community organizers than the general reader. Although highly skilled at crushing opponents, Moses was eventually outmaneuvered in the 1950s and '60s by Jacobs, whose landmark The Death and Life of Great American Cities was a war cry against urban renewal projects that destroyed existing neighborhoods. (July 28)Copyright © Reed Bus
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. By confronting Moses and his vision, Jacobs forever changed the way Americans understood the city. 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 in need of “urban renewal.” Standing up against government plans for the city, Jacobs marshaled popular support and political power against Moses, whether to block traffic through her beloved Washington Square Park or to prevent the construction of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, an elevated superhighway that would have destroyed centuries-old streetscapes and displaced thousands of families. Her story reminds us of the power we have as individuals to confront and defy reckless authority.
He lives in Boston.From the Hardcover edition.. He is the author of This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America. Anthony Flint is the director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think-tank on land and development issues located in Cambridge, MA, and was a reporter at The Bo
"A Solid Introduction to Two Towering Personalities" according to David Alden. "Wrestling with Moses" contains abbreviated biographies of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses and accounts of the three fields on which they did battle.The author doesn't pretend to be impartial. Jacobs is clearly his hero and he presents her as the valiant underdog to the shadowy overlord. And, of course, he celebrates when she wins all three battles.I read "Wrestling with Mose. "Moses vs Jacobs" according to Ghost71. I was born in the Midwest and worked housing construction, landscaping, and installed storm doors and storm windows all in the southwest suburban sprawl of the Chicago area. It was dismal over priced over sized housing that was so uniform and desolate to be nothing more than a glorified prison camp. The suburbs are a terrible form of modern living. Cold, isolated, and sepa. New York City Planning Struggles Well Chronicled LEON L CZIKOWSKY This is an insightful description of critical battles over New York public policy plans. Robert Moses, who led various New York City transportation and planning departments, proposed the creation of a ten lane elevated highway in Manhattan. It would require tearing down 400 buildings and remove 2,200 families and 800 businesses. Jane Jacobs was a leader of community groups