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"Building like Moses with Jacobs in mind" : contemporary planning in New York City /
The antagonism between urbanist and writer Jane Jacobs and master builder Robert Moses may frame debates over urban form, but in this book, the author aims to use the Moses-Jacobs rivalry as a means for examining and understanding the New York City administration's redevelopment strategies and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2013
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| Colección: | Urban life, landscape, and policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The antagonism between urbanist and writer Jane Jacobs and master builder Robert Moses may frame debates over urban form, but in this book, the author 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, the author 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. This book shows how the legacies of these two planners have been interpreted - and reinterpreted - over time and with the evolution of urban space. Ultimately, the author 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 modern cities. |
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| Notas: | Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 14, 2013). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 187 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-180) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781439909713 1439909717 129955752X 9781299557529 1439909695 9781439909690 |