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The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
The Battle for Gotham New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
Author: Roberta Brandes Gratz
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 t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781568584386
ISBN-10: 1568584385
Publication Date: 3/30/2010
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Nation Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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