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
Biographies
1 online resource
9781588368621, 1588368629
466382139
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