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

How New York's mayor

List 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

About the author

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

Summary

How New York's mayor's urban development plans rely on a blending of Moses and Jacobs

Product details

• Authors: Scott Larson
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.05.2013
• EAN: 9781439909706
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0970-6
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy; Urban Life, Landscape and Poli; Urban Life, Landscape and Policy; Urban Life, Landscape and Poli
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning