Discussions of the ill effects of public housing, urban renewal, and urban freeways usually focus on big cities: the Chicago-lakefront hellhole called the Robert Taylor Homes, now-demolished ...

This exhibit highlights a number of projects Moses built under the “slum clearance” housing and urban renewal programs, all apartment buildings varying in design quality from the most familiar red ...

Robert Moses, the New York urban planner regarded as one of the most powerful and influential people in the nation’s largest city, took no back seat to Richard J. Daley.

This is something that Robert Moses, now vilified for his role in building highways and in misguided urban renewal, understood well.

As documented in a study of Mr. Moses’ legacy edited by the historians Kenneth T. Jackson and Hilary Ballon, Mr. Moses so expertly wielded federal funding that New York City received 114 percent ...

Robert Moses Vs. Jane Jacobs, The Central Drama Of Urban Planning, Will Be An Opera New York City's seminal 1960s urban design battle will be turned into an opera, with a libretto by Pulitzer ...

Robert Caro’s definitive book on urban planner Robert Moses blends prodigious research, keen reporting and novelistic richness in its portrait of the city’s master builder.

Shiloh Frederick, a New York City-based content creator commonly known by her social media handle @shilohinthecity, posted a video on Instagram calling out the figures as racially- motivated ...

Half a century after its publication, “The Power Broker,” Robert Caro’s epic biography of the urban planner and city-destroyer Robert Moses, needs no revival. From the moment it was ...

Discussions of the ill effects of public housing, urban renewal, and urban freeways usually focus on big cities: the Chicago-lakefront hellhole called the Robert Taylor Homes, now-demolished; Robert ...