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u/joetrinsey · 20 pointsr/urbanplanning

I think this article: http://marketurbanism.com/2018/07/30/how-should-we-interpret-jane-jacobs/ has a solid treatment of the topic.

A quote from the article:

> As Flint (2011) notes, Jacobs’ now famous battles with Robert Moses created a framework for later NIMBY (“Not In My Back Yard”) efforts, including but certainly not limited to her 1952 fight to prevent a highway intersecting Washington Square Park. Beyond this battle, Jacobs helped to organize the community in resisting a number of large-scale projects from occurring in Greenwich Village using the tactics of endless public review and pressure on elected officials to kill projects.

Jacobs was of course, much more than just a NIMBY. And, as this article notes, it's more accurate to say that what we now call "NIMBY" groups copied Jacobs' tactics, because she's probably the most successful neighborhood preservationist of all time. But in her famous fight with Robert Moses, he was absolutely the voice of modern, rational (white) progress, while she was the obstructionist fighting change.

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u/faizimam · 2 pointsr/urbanplanning

If you enjoyed how she fought Moses, I highly recommend "wrestling with moses"

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/0812981367

It's a detailed account of her time in Manhattan and focuses much more on the context of the man as well as the city at the time, in a more retrospective fashion.


u/ArchEast · 2 pointsr/urbanplanning

Wrestling with Moses by Anthony Flint is a good companion piece to The Power Broker.