Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City by Flint, Anthony
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City by Flint, Anthony

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

The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is...
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Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City by Flint, Anthony

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

BD$31.34
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City by Flint, Anthony

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

BD$31.34
Author: Anthony Flint
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 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. By confronting Moses and his vision, Jacobs forever changed the way Americans understood the city. Her story reminds us of the power we have as individuals to confront and defy reckless authority.

Author: Anthony Flint
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 02/08/2011
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.33w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780812981360


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/12/2011 pg. 24

About the Author
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 Boston Globe for sixteen years. He is the author of This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America. He lives in Boston.


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