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Article: Moses reappraised.(Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York)(Book review)
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- The Architectural Review
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- August 1, 2007
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ROBERT MOSES AND THE MODERN CITY: THETRANSFORMATION OF NEWYORK
Edited by Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson. London: W. W. Norton. 2007. [pounds sterling]30
Years after the 1939 New York World's Fair was over, people were still talking about the General Motors' Futurama exhibition that projected with ingenious scale models a futuristic view of a city tied from one end to the other by bridges and highways. Those were still early days for urban planner Robert Moses who had been simultaneously appointed both New York City's parks commissioner and chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority as well as an overseer of the Fair itself. At that ...
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... ... subtitle for the book, "Robert Moses and the Fall of New York," is not only mean-spirited ... of men. In the shaping of New York, Robert Moses was comparable only to some elemental force of nature." New York could use such a force of ...
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