Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City

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The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is likely one of the most dramatic and consequential in up to date American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, used to be the whole thing a city neighborhood will have to be. But consummate power broker Robert Moses, the father of many of New York’s most monumental development projects, thought neighborhoods like Greenwich Village were badly in need of “urban renewal.” Standing up against government plans for the city, Jacobs marshaled popular beef up and political power against Moses, whether to block traffic through her beloved Washington Square Park or to forestall the construction of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, an elevated superhighway that would have destroyed centuries-old streetscapes and displaced thousands of families. By confronting Moses and his vision, Jacobs perpetually changed the way in which Americans understood the city. Her story reminds us of the power we’ve got as individuals to confront and defy reckless authority.

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