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Jane Jacobs
Moses, Jacobs And You: The Battle For Gotham
A history of the philosophical battle between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, told by an author who, wisely, took it personally.
Waking the Dead
Lomex. Robert Moses. Westway. Jane Jacobs. What New York's planning past tells us about its future.
Five Boroughs. One City. No Plan.
Is the city's failure to plan a plan for failure?
Whose Dreams Will Decide?
The push for neighborhoods to have more than a voice.
Into the Wild:
Nature's NYC
A photographic survey of the city’s parkland reveals verdant, untamed places most New Yorkers don’t know are theirs.
All Together Now: Toward
A Better Land Use Process
An expert in local "progressive community-based planning" explains what that means and how to do it.
Now It's Jacobs' Turn:
A Look At Her Legacy
A friend and colleague of author Jane Jacobs reviews the icon's thinking, spurred by a major museum survey of her impact on this city - and all cities.
When Mayoral Past
Is Presidential Prologue
Attention, voters: the nitty-gritty details of the Giuliani years come rushing back in this survey of his era.
ROBERT MOSES RECONSIDERED:
BLIGHT IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
A noted urban thinker reminds us what was lost when Robert Moses deemed areas 'slums' and tore them down. The third in a series of essays on an ambitious three-part museum exhibit.
ROBERT MOSES RECONSIDERED:
POWER AND PROCESS RIGHT NOW
A noted urban thinker assesses the continuing debate by city leaders and the great builder's biographer over the meanings of Moses. The second in a series of essays on an ambitious three-part museum exhibit.
REMEMBERING JANE JACOBS
Urban planner Thomas G. Lunke on the life and times of a local luminary.
Housing and Development
City Limits provides in-depth coverage of the housing market and initiatives, tenants rights and public housing, and community development.
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America's Cities Shaped (and Mishaped) by Rules
Zoning laws, building codes and other regulations can seem like bureaucratic obscurities. But, says this author, they have a powerful—and often negative—impact on urban areas.
