The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

by Roberta Brandes Gratz

Book Overview

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 this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568586787
• ISBN13: 9781568586786
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Bold Type Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher