"Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind": Contemporary Planning in New York City

by Scott Larson

Overview

The antagonism between urbanist and writer Jane Jacobs and master builder Robert Moses has long framed debates over urban form. Scott Larson's "Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind" 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 today's cities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439909690
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	05/10/2013
Series:	Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Scott Larson is an independent scholar who has taught geography and urban studies at Vassar College, Queens College, and Hunter College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1   Jacobs versus Moses: A Fight for the City’s Soul
2   The “Patron Saint” and the “Git’r Done Man”
3   The Bloomberg Practice
4   Calls for a New Moses
5   Planning and the Narrative of Threat
6   The Armature for Development
7   Ideas That Converge
8   Ideas That Travel
9   Design as Civic Virtue
10  Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind

Notes
References
Index