Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

The problem, Kirk told Jacobs, was that nobody was following up on the work to see if the new projects were better than what they had replaced.

He was responsible for thirteen bridges, two tunnels, 637 miles of highways, 658 playgrounds, ten giant public swimming pools, seventeen state parks, and dozens of new or renovated city parks. He cleared three hundred acres of city land and constructed towers that contained 28,400 new apartments. He built Lincoln Center, the United Nations, Shea St