aThe 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 ...
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aThe 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.a "Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind" offers a lively critique that shows how the legacies of these two planners have been interpretedOCoand reinterpretedOCoover time and with the evolution of urban space. Ultimately, he makes the case that neither figure offers a meaningful model for addressing stubborn problemsOCopoverty, lack of affordable housing, and segregation along class and racial linesOCothat continue to vex today's cities.
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This book builds on the growing fascination with the personalities of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, and their impact on the development of the New York Metropolitan Region. Larson does a great job in presenting and interpreting Moses and Jacobs. His book is enjoyable to read, and it is well grounded in the pertinent literature.
Nevertheless, the reader should always question why Moses and Jacobs have so much prominence, and whether they really had so much impact on New York City. Much of what Moses did was implementing federal and state policies, yet the federal and state decision-makers receive little consideration. Crucial New York decision-makers like Fiorello LaGuardia, Austin Tobin and Nelson Rockefeller are also largely ignored. Jacobs was an activist and writer, rather than a public administrator like Moses, and she left the New York scene for Toronto in 1968. There are many good reasons to question the framing of 20th century New York history around the Moses-Jacobs rivalry, but the rivalry is popular and Larson does a great job in helping readers to better understand it.
