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EMINENT DOMINION.
For a generation, the standard view of Robert Moses has been that he transformed New York but didn't really make it better. This view was shaped by Robert Caro's epic biography "The Power Broker"--published in 1974 and in print ever since. (Parts of it initially ran in this magazine.) Caro portrays Moses as a brilliant political operative who perpetuated his power by means of grand public works, filling the landscape with bridges and tunnels and parkways, heedless of people or neighborhoods that might get in the way of them. The notion of Moses as the evil genius of mid-twentieth-century urban design got a boost last spring in obituaries of and tributes to Jane Jacobs, a ...
- The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the...
- Magazine article from: The Historian Holloran, Peter C. June 22, 1995 700+ words
...legendary New York builder Robert Moses, and the elite...to his native New York City in the...powerful role that Robert Moses (1888-1981...talent of a Robert Moses to link the...that postwar New York City endured...
- The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and the Development of the...
- Magazine article from: Public Interest Starr, Roger January 1, 1993 700+ words
...recent book, The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals...of construction, Robert Moses, also favored relocation...manufacturing enterprises. New York's factories were...that even without Robert Moses' help, other American...
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.(Public Works Bookstore)
- Magazine article from: Public Works May 1, 2004 700+ words
...won a Pulitzer Prize for this compelling look at arguably the most important figure in the history of New York City, master planner Robert Moses. In his incredible half-century of influence that stretched from Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello...
- Robert Moses: the master builder. (Municipal Art Society, New York)...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Kay, Jane Holtz April 24, 1989 700+ words
...who made the major mark on New York's landscape, it has been...two-day conference on "Robert Moses' New York" at the Columbia University...ruefully. "Do we wish Robert Moses had never happened to New York?" architect Hugh Hardy...
- Where is Robert Moses now that we need him?(influence of New York developer)
- Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly Paprin, Maurice March 8, 2000 700+ words
...subtitle for the book, "Robert Moses and the Fall of New York," is not only mean-spirited...of men. In the shaping of New York, Robert Moses was comparable only to some elemental force of nature." New York could use such a force of...
- Moses reappraised.(Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New...
- Magazine article from: The Architectural Review Deitz, Paula August 1, 2007 700+ words
...urban planner Robert Moses who had been...appointed both New York City's parks...Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York that criticised...an apology, Robert Moses and the Modern...exhibitions in New York this past spring...
- Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York.(Brief...
- Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch August 1, 2007 700+ words
Robert Moses and the Modern City...Transformation of New York Hilary Ballon and...5th Avenue, New York NY 10010 0393732061...wwnorton.com Robert Moses saw himself on a rescue mission to save New York City from obsolescence...
- Robert Moses and the modern city; the transformation of New York.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2007 700+ words
9780393732061 Robert Moses and the modern...transformation of New York. Ed. by Hilary...of the City of New York, and the Miriam...profiles the work of Robert Moses (1888-1981...of 20th century New York. Rather than produce...
