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Wrestling with Moses : how Jane Jacobs took on New York's master builder and transformed the American city / Anthony Flint.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HT168.N5 F55 2009
Available from offsite location
- 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 : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, 2009.
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Jones fund bookplate; c.2:Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781400066742
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