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Roberta Brandes Gratz


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Roberta Brandes Gratz is an award-winning journalist and urban critic. She is author of the classic, The Living City: Thinking Small in a Big Way, (1989, Simon & Schuster), Cities Back From the Edge: New Life For Downtown (1998, John Wiley & Sons) and the recent Battle For Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses & Jane Jacobs (2010, Nation Books).

Articles, Investigations and Blogs

Owners at one Brooklyn building say they can maintain its historic look without the hassle of a landmark designation. It's just another instance, this writer says, of property owners wanting all the benefits and none of the burden of protecting NY's architectural assets.



A noted urban thinker takes in the centerpiece of a three-part exhibition re-examining Moses. Among other failings, the apostle of the auto starved mass transit, she says. The first in a series of articles on this ambitious exhibit.