Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
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Urban Life, Landscape and Policy

Contemporary Planning in New York City

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Urban Life, Landscape and Policy

Contemporary Planning in New York City

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 The antagonism between urbanist and writer Jane Jacobs and master builder Robert Moses may frame debates over urban form, but in "Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind, " Scott Larson aims to use the Moses-Jacobs rivalry as a means for examining and understanding the New York City administration's redevelopment strategies and actions. By showing how the Bloomberg administration's plans borrow selectively from Moses' and Jacobs' writing, Larson lays bare the contradictions buried in such rhetoric and argues that there can be no equitable solution to the social and economic goals for redevelopment in New York City with such a strategy. 

"Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind" offers a lively critique that shows how the legacies of these two planners have been interpreted—and reinterpreted—over time and with the evolution of urban space. Ultimately, he makes the case that neither figure offers a meaningful model for addressing stubborn problems—poverty, lack of affordable housing, and segregation along class and racial lines—that continue to vex today's cities.

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Publisher
Temple University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781439909713
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Politics
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. Jacobs versus Moses: A Fight for the City’s Soul
  4. 2. The “Patron Saint” and the “Git’r Done Man”
  5. 3. The Bloomberg Practice
  6. 4. Calls for a New Moses
  7. 5. Planning and the Narrative of Threat
  8. 6. The Armature for Development
  9. 7. Ideas That Converge
  10. 8. Ideas That Travel
  11. 9. Design as Civic Virtue
  12. 10. Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind
  13. Notes
  14. References
  15. Index