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Genre/Form: | Biography collective biographies Biographies History |
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Named Person: | Jane Jacobs; Robert Moses; Jane Jacobs; Robert Moses; Jane Jacobs; Robert Moses |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anthony Flint |
ISBN: | 9781400066742 1400066743 |
OCLC Number: | 427050603 |
Awards: | Winner of Christopher Awards (Books for Adults) 2010 |
Description: | xvii, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Anthony Flint. |
Abstract:
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.
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