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Article: Where is Robert Moses now that we need him?(influence of New York developer)
- Article from:
- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- March 8, 2000
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Few people in the City and State are old enough to remember the quintessential "Builder and Planner" of more major parks, beaches, bridges, parkways, urban renewal housing developments and center city re-developments than any other single figure in most of the years of the 20th Century. Robert Caro authored a wonderful award-winning book on Robert Moses titled "The Power Broker." The book now is about to have a renaissance. It will likely find its way onto the reading lists of an entirely new generation.
Author Caro has become a central source in the recent multi-part documentary about New York City created by the genius Ken Burns for PBS, and shown here on WNET ...