The Battle for Gotham

The Battle for Gotham
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages : 662
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ISBN-10 : 9781458783912
ISBN-13 : 145878391X
Rating : 4/5 (91X Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Battle for Gotham by : Roberta Brandes Gratz

Download or read book The Battle for Gotham written by Roberta Brandes Gratz and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Yorks ''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 of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Mosess urban philosophy. As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobss philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizens Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.


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