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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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.
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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