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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Biographies History Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version |
Named Person: | Jane Jacobs; Robert Moses; Jane Jacobs; Robert Moses |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anthony Flint |
ISBN: | 9781588368621 1588368629 |
OCLC Number: | 466382139 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
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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