Building like Moses with Jacobs in mind : contemporary planning in New York City / Scott Larson.

By:

Larson, Scott, 1961- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Urban life, landscape, and policyPublication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781439909713
1439909717
129955752X
9781299557529
1439909695
9781439909690

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

307.1/216097471 23

LOC classification:

HT168.N5 L37 2013

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Contents:

Jacobs vs. Moses : a fight the city's soul -- The patron saint and the Git-r-done man -- The Bloomberg practice -- Calls for new Moses -- Planning and the narrative of threat -- The armature for development -- Ideas that converge -- Ideas that travel -- Design as civic virtue -- Building like Moses with Jacobs in mind.

Summary: The 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 go.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The 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 go.

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