Whose City is it anyway? Jane Jacobs vs. Robert Moses and contemporary redevelopment politics in New York City

Abstract

For decades the legacies of the Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs have loomed over redevelopment politics in New York City, serving as ideological opposites in ongoing struggles to influence the form of the urban built environment. In truth, the narrowness of this prevailing logic obscures the fact that both Jacobs and Moses represent a distinctly class-based strategy for remaking the city, one that fits neatly within the Bloomberg administration's ambitious plans for redeveloping neighborhoods from Manhattan's Far West Side to Willet's Point in Queens.