WRESTLING WITH MOSES How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City By Anthony Flint

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/books/05garner.html




BOOKS OF THE TIMES
When David Fought Goliath in Washington Square Park
By DWIGHT GARNER
Published: August 5, 2009
A history of the clashes between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses during the 1950s and ’60s over three of the huge public works projects Moses tried to force on Manhattan.