Building like Moses with Jacobs in mind : contemporary planning in New York City / Scott Larson.

Main entry:

Larson, Scott, 1961-

Title & Author:

Building like Moses with Jacobs in mind : contemporary planning in New York City / Scott Larson.

Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.

Description:

viii, 187 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Urban life, landscape, and policy

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-180) and index.
Jacobs vs. Moses : a fight the city's soul -- The patron saint and the Git-r-done man -- The Bloomberg practice -- Calls for new Moses -- Planning and the narrative of threat -- The armature for development -- Ideas that converge -- Ideas that travel -- Design as civic virtue -- Building like Moses with Jacobs in mind.

ISBN:

9781439909690 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1439909695 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781439909706 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1439909709 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781439909713 (e-book)
1439909717 (e-book)

Subject:

Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.
Bloomberg, Michael.
Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.
City planning New York (State) New York.
City planning.
New York (State) New York.

Added entries:

Urban life, landscape, and policy.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290489
Call No.: BIB 233506
Status: Available

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