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Jacobs vs. Moses
Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Anthony Flint
Random House
There’s an image of Jane Jacobs that endures in New York City lore: a 1960s photograph of the urban preservationist at a midtown protest of the destruction of the former Pennsylvania Station, in which Jacobs appears “in a felt skirt and top, her trademark costume-jewelry necklace of oversize beads and white gloves,” according to writer Anthony Flint. This image dons the cover of Flint’s praiseworthy new book, Wrestling With Moses, an account of Jacobs’ style — not in dress, but in dressing down the New York mega-projects of Robert Moses.
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