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Wrestling with Moses : how Jane Jacobs took on New York's master builder and transformed the American city

Documents the 1968 clash between activist writer Jane Jacobs and urban-planning giant Robert Moses over a planned expressway in New York City, exploring how Jacobs' eventual victory reshaped the ways in which people respond to urban renewal projects
Print Book, English, ©2009
Random House, New York, ©2009
Biography
xvii, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
9781400066742, 1400066743
427050603
Introduction : anarchy and order
The girl from Scranton
The master builder
The battle of Washington Square Park
Urban renewal in Greenwich village
The lower Manhattan expressway
Epilogue : separate ways