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
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