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February 4, 2009
Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson, eds. Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. 336 pp.; 53 color ills.; 207 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780393732061)
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Robert Moses did more to shape the modern landscape of New York than any other individual in the city’s history. His urban vision dramatically, and irrevocably, transformed the entire metropolitan region in the middle of the twentieth century. This is the subject of a handsome volume of essays, photographs, and catalogue entries edited by Columbia Professors Hilary Ballon and Kenneth Jackson and published in conjunction with a three-part exhibition on Moses held in New York...