Probably no one else has done more to shape the understanding of the contemporary American city with Jane Jacobs, the visionary operator and author of “The Death and Life of the Great American Cities,” and fought to keep the urban community facing the destructive development of the project. Here, he fought against rebuilding town planner Robert Moses ruthless.

Jane Jacobs urban activist and writer struggling to save historic New York during the rebuilding of the absolute plannerRobert in the 1960s urban.