The political costs of the Lincoln Square projects, however, were too great for Mayor Robert F. Wagner Sr., who removed Moses as the city’s urban-renewal czar. Political advocacy crested over time. A ...

Three new books propose market solutions to problems that require government intervention. We’ve been here before. It didn’t ...

leading the fight to defeat a pair of urban renewal projects being imposed on her neighborhood by the city's longtime redevelopment czar, Robert Moses. In a series of stunning victories ...

At the end of his 2019 memoir, Working, Robert Caro subtly admits that ... She offered a political and aesthetic critique of urban renewal, arguing that Moses’s developments ignored the local ...