[PDF.76kf] Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

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

[PDF.mu69] Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Solid Introduction to Two Towering Personalities|By 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|From Publishers Weekly|Former Boston Globe reporter Flint recounts how activist and writer Jane Jacobs stopped the seemingly unstoppable master builder Robert Moses. Beginning in the 1930s, Moses consolidated his enormous power through the administrations

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 ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City   |  Anthony Flint. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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