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Wrestling with Moses : how Jane Jacobs took on New York's master builder and transformed the American city / Anthony Flint.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flint, Anthony, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.
- Jacobs, Jane.
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.
- Moses, Robert.
- National Book Committee.
- City planners--Biography.
- City planners.
- City planners--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- History.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2009]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781400066742
- 1400066743
- OCLC:
- 427050603
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