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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427050603 Title: Wrestling with Moses : how Jane Jacobs took on New York's master builder and transformed the American city Author: Anthony Flint Publisher: New York : Random House, ©2009. ISBN/ISSN: 9781400066742 1400066743 OCLC:427050603

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Wrestling with Moses : how Jane Jacobs took on New York's master builder and transformed the American city

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Wrestling with Moses : how Jane Jacobs took on New York's master builder and transformed the American city

Author:	Anthony Flint
Publisher:	New York : Random House, ©2009.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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.
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Subjects	Jacobs, Jane, -- 1916-2006. Moses, Robert, -- 1888-1981. Jacobs, Jane -- 1916-2006 View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Biographies Biography History
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 Find more information about:
ISBN:	9781400066742 1400066743
OCLC Number:	427050603
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.

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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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