Roberta Brandes Gratz - The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
Roberta Brandes Gratz - The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
2011 | ISBN: 1568586787 | English | 400 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 5 MB
2011 | ISBN: 1568586787 | English | 400 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 5 MB
In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, middleclass exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York’s “master builder,” Robert Moses, with turning Gotham around, despite his heavy-handed ways. Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. She argues that New York City recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses and the growing influence of Jane Jacobs, the pioneer of organic renewal projects.