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Building like Moses with Jacobs in mind : contemporary planning in New York City / Scott Larson.
LIBRA HT168.N5 L37 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larson, Scott, 1961-
- Series:
- Urban life, landscape, and policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--New York (State)--New York.
- City planning.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.
- Bloomberg, Michael.
- Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 187 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The antagonism between urbanist and writer Jane Jacobs and master builder Robert Moses has long framed debates over urban form. Scott Larson's "Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind" makes the case that neither figure offers a meaningful model for addressing stubborn problems-poverty, lack of affordable housing, and segregation along class and racial lines-that continue to vex today's cities. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Jacobs versus Moses : a fight for the city's soul
- The "patron saint" and the "git-r-done man"
- The Bloomberg practice
- Calls for a new Moses
- Planning and the narrative of threat
- The armature for development
- Ideas that converge
- Ideas that travel
- Design as civic virtue
- Building like Moses with Jacobs in mind.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439909690
- 1439909695
- 9781439909706
- 1439909709
- 9781439909713
- 1439909717
- OCLC:
- 816029616
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