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05-15-2025, 06:19 AM
[Only registered and activated users can see links] The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
Author(s): Roberta Brandes Gratz

Language: English
Published: 03-19-14
Publisher: Nation Books
ISBN: 9781568584386
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: General, History, United States, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Political, 20th Century, Sociology, Political Science, History: American, History - U.S., History of the Americas, State & Local, DE, United States - 20th Century, NJ, NY, PA), MD, U.S. History - 20th Century (General), New York, United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic, Middle Atlantic (DC, New York (State), Social & cultural history, Social Scientists & Psychologists, Urban, United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000), Regional History, Public Policy, Middle Atlantic (DC; DE; MD; NJ; NY; PA), Urbanization, Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev., Urban renewal, City planning, City Planning & Urban Development

In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York's master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Moses's urban philosophy. As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobs's philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizen's Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.

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