The Battle for Gotham (64 page)

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