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by Roberta Brandes Gratz


  Park Slope(photo)

  Park West Village

  Parking

  Parking facilities

  Parking lots

  Parks

  development of

  Moses and

  Pataki, George

  Paula Cooper Gallery

  Pedestrian

  Pei, I. M.

  Pelleck, Carl J.

  Penn Central

  Penn Station

  Pennsylvania Railway Company

  People’s Development Corporation

  People’s Firehouse

  Percent For Art

  Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

  Philadelphia

  Piano, Renzio

  Pier A, battle over

  Pier 45

  Pilates equipment

  Pittsburgh

  Planned Shrinkage

  Planners’ blight

  Planning

  advocacy

  centralized

  changes in

  community-based

  large-scale

  misguided

  process

  rational

  Planning Department

  PlaNYC

  Playgrounds

  Plaza Hotel

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  Poirier, Norman

  Police Headquarters

  Politics

  Pollan, Michael

  Pollock, Jackson

  Pollution

  Polshek, James

  Pomander Walk

  Port Authority

  Portland

  bicycle industry in

  highways for

  transit in

  Posten, Ted

  Poverty

  Power Broker, The (Caro)

  Pratt Center for Community and Economic Development

  Precursors

  highlighting

  historic preservation and

  lost

  maturation of

  recognizing

  Preservation

  awareness

  battles for

  change and

  conservation and

  culture and

  environment and

  green

  movement

  women’s groups and

  Preservation League of New York State

  Preservationists

  Progress

  Promenade Theater

  Prospect Park

  Public Development Corporation

  Public housing

  Public participation

  Public spaces

  Public transit

  Pueblo Nuevo Housing and Development Association

  PUKAR

  Purnick, Joyce

  Push-pull effect

  Queens

  Queens-Manhattan Tunnel

  Queens West

  Queensborough Bridge

  Raab, Jennifer

  Rabinowitz, Richard

  Radio City Music Hall

  Rail freight

  Rampell, Catherine

  Rapkin, Chester

  Ratner, Bruce

  development and

  proposal by

  Ward’s Bakery and

  Rauschenberg, Robert

  Ravitch, Richard

  Reagan, Ronald

  Real estate

  development

  market

  Rebuilding

  Recycling

  Red Hook

  development in

  gardens in

  Ikea and

  Red Hook Houses

  Redlining

  Reed, John

  Regeneration

  authentic

  downtown

  organic

  potential for

  precursors of

  preservation and

  process

  spontaneous

  Regional Plan

  Regional Planning Association (RPA)

  1929 Plan of

  Rehabilitation

  Reinvestment

  Renovation

  Replacement

  plans

  Resettlement, urban

  Restoration

  Richardson, H. H.

  Riots

  Rittenhouse Square

  Riverside Drive

  Riverside Park

  Robert Moses Urban Renewal Plan

  Roberts, Sam

  Rockefeller, David

  Rockefeller, John D.

  Rockefeller, Laurence

  Rockefeller, Nelson A.

  Rockefeller Center

  Rockefeller Foundation

  Rogers, Betsy Barlow

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roth, James

  Rothstein, Karla

  Rowhouses

  Russianoff, Gene

  Rypkema, Donovan

  Saarinen Arch

  Sadik-Khan, Janette

  St. Louis

  urban renewal and

  St. Vincent’s Hospital

  San Diego

  highways for

  light rail and

  San Francisco

  highways for

  regeneration and

  transit and

  San Francisco earthquake (1989)

  Sann, Paul

  Sassen, Saskia

  Savannah

  regeneration and

  urban renewal and

  Saypol, Irving

  Scale

  Schur, Robert

  Schwartz, Joel

  Seagram Building

  Seattle

  Second Avenue subway

  Seeds of recovery

  Seeger, Pete

  Self-help

  Self-organized

  Seltzer, Ethan

  Separating uses

  Service-based economy

  Shapiro, John

  Shapiro, Michael

  Shea Stadium

  Sheridan Expressway

  Shiffman, Ron

  Siegel, Gwathmy

  Silent Spring (Carson)

  Singer Building

  Single Room Occupancy (SRO)

  Sixth Avenue

  Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill

  Sloan, Alfred P.

  Slum clearance

  Slums

  causes of

  cleaning up

  Moses and

  Smith, Alfred E.

  Smith, Chris

  Snell, Bradford

  Social change, patterns of

  Social networks

  SoHo

  battle over

  historic preservation movement and

  impact of

  investment in

  Jacobs and

  Lower Manhattan Expressway and

  revival of

  transformation of

  SoHo Syndrome

  Son of Sam

  Sorkin, Michael

  South Bronx

  clearance and

  devastation for

  inner city collapse and

  Moses and

  regeneration of

  South Central Los Angeles

  South Street Seaport Museum

  South Village

  Southern State Parkway

  Srivastava, Rahul

  Stadiums

  Starr, Roger

  Starrett-Lehigh Building

  State Council of Parks, Moses and

  Staten Island

  Statue of Liberty

  Stein, Clarence

  Stern, Isaac and Vera

  Stern, Robert A. M.

  Stevenson, Adlai

  Stokes, William Earl Dodge

  Stone, Edward Durrell

  Straphangers Campaign

  Streetcar systems

  Stuyvesant, Peter

  Stuyvesant Town

  Styron, William

  Subsidies

  Suburban development

  Suburbs

  differences in

  transition to

  Subways


  investment in

  Sun Building

  Sunset Park

  Sustainability

  Sweeney, David

  Sweet’s Construction and Renovation Catalogue

  Synagogues

  Taconic Parkway

  Taft, Robert A.

  Talese, Gay

  Tallamy, Bertram D.

  Tavern-on-the-Green

  Tax breaks

  Taylor, Marilyn

  Tenements

  Third Water Tunnel

  Thirty-fourth Street Armory

  Thirty-second Street

  Thomas, Dylan

  Time Piece (Lin)

  Time-Warner Center

  Times Square

  Tisch Foundation

  Tools for Schools

  Top-down plans

  Toronto

  Tourist attractions

  Trade-ins

  Traffic

  accommodation of

  behavior

  decline of

  problems with

  Traffic congestion

  Traffic engineers

  Transit

  bus

  destroying

  highways and

  investing in

  mass

  public

  traffic and

  Transit advocates

  Transportation

  alternatives

  balanced

  debate over

  environmentalists and

  improving

  Jacobs and

  legislation

  links

  planning

  urban development and

  Travolta, John

  Treitel-Gratz

  Triangle Shirt Waist Fire building

  Tribeca

  boardwalk

  Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority

  Trillin, Calvin

  Trucks

  Trump, Donald

  Trump International Hotel

  Tugwell, Rexford G.

  Tully Construction Company

  Tweed Courthouse

  Union Settlement House

  Union Square

  Union Square Greenmarket

  Union Square Park

  U.S. Conference of Mayors

  U.S. Department of Transportation

  U.S. Supreme Court

  Unslumming

  Upper East Side

  Upper West Side

  change for

  clearance projects for

  Columbia and

  Moses and

  slum clearance and

  urban renewal and

  Upzoning

  Urban assets

  Urban change

  Urban decay

  Urban fabric

  Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB)

  Urban Husbandry

  Urban philosophies

  Urban pioneers

  Urban renewal

  density and

  federal funds for

  fighting

  impact of

  low-income housing and

  Moses and

  problems with

  push of

  Upper West Side and

  Urban resilience

  Urban resurgence

  Urban strategies

  Urbanism

  density and

  preserving

  regeneration of

  Vacant land

  Values

  Van Arsdale, Harry

  Van Cortlandt Park

  Van Wyck Expressway

  Verrazano Bridge

  Viable urban fabric

  Vignelli, Masimo and Lila

  Village Voice

  Villard Houses

  Wagner, Robert F.

  Jacobs and

  Moses and

  Wagner, Robert F., Jr.

  Walkable streets

  Wall Street

  Wallace, Deborah

  Wallace, Mike

  Wallace, Rodrick

  Ward, Robert

  Ward’s Bakery

  Warhol, Andy

  Washington, D.C.

  Washington Square

  changes for

  Washington Square Arch

  Washington Square Park

  Moses and

  NYU and

  redesign of

  road through

  urban philosophies and

  Washington Square Village

  Waterfront

  Waters, Alice

  Wechsler, James

  Weisbrod, Carl

  Weiss, Ted

  West End Avenue

  West Side

  brownstones on

  draw of

  landmarks on

  Lincoln Center and

  low-income residents and

  Moses and

  renewal on

  zoning in

  West Side Highway

  rebuilding

  West Side Story

  West Side Urban Renewal

  West Village

  fight for

  Jacobs and

  West Village Houses

  West Village Urban Renewal

  Westbeth

  Westport

  Westway

  battle over

  defeat of

  Jacobs and

  proponents of

  White, Kevin

  Whitney Museum

  Whyte, William H., Jr.

  Willets Point

  Williams-Derry, Clark

  Williamsburg

  Wilson, August

  Wolf, Dan

  Wolfe, Tom

  Women’s groups, preservation and

  Wood, Anthony C.

  Wood, Ed

  Woolworth Building

  Works Progress Administration

  World Trade Center

  World’s Fair (1939, 1964)

  Wright, Henry

  Yampierre, Elizabeth

  Yankee Stadium

  Yarmolowsky, Sendor

  Young, Bob

  Youth Ministries for Truth and Justice

  Zeckendorf, William

  Zographos, Nicos

  Zoning

  changes in

  Zoning bonuses

  Zoning breaks

  The Center for the Living City

  For several years before she died, Jane and I discussed ways in which she would like to see her work carried on. In 2004, in collaboration with her, a small group of her friends established The Center for the Living City, a name she suggested.

  In varying ways in the years to come, we will build on her work and seek to expand the already substantial population that observes and advocates on behalf of urban life in her tradition.

  Copyright © 2010 by Roberta Brandes Gratz

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  Some of the images in this book have been reprinted with permission: photograph of my apartment building, reprinted with permission of New York University Archives; “Ford to City: Drop Dead”

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Gratz, Roberta Brandes.

  The battle for Gotham : New York in the shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs / Roberta Brandes Gratz.

  p. cm.r />
  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  eISBN : 978-1-568-58646-5

  1. Urban renewal—New York (State)—New York. 2. City planning—New York (State)—New York. 3. Urbanization—New York (State)—New York. 4. Moses, Robert, 1888-1981. 5. Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006. I. Title.

  HT177.N5G73 2010

  307.3’41609747—dc22

  2009047501

 

 

 


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