Robert Moses

Blue America lacks a Gov. Ron DeSantis: someone remaking a state or major city in the image of a well-articulated ideology.

The Power Broker leaves us ill-equipped to understand or confront the struggles that face the city today.

Preservationists like Jane Jacobs are urbanist heroes. But their rules can stifle.

Did Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from them? The truth is complex.

A 1974 review of Robert Caro's "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York."

Stanley Greenberg has spent decades answering the question of how water arrives in our taps and building interest in this vast and impressive system.

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

On Robert Moses, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the culture of environmental waste.

On the falsification of Lincoln Center’s history.

My dad grew up in Robert Moses’s New York City. His story is a testament to how urban planning shapes countless lives.

In the late 1960s, Baltimore began demolishing Black neighborhoods to make room for an ill-fated expressway. Will the harm from the Highway to Nowhere ever be repaired?

In 1948, the landfill at Fresh Kills was marketed to Staten Island as a stopgap measure. No one guessed that it would remain open for more than half a century.

What happened to the former Main Street of Syrian America.

How the patron saint of progressive urban planning’s ideas and ideals were implemented – and corrupted.

Without accounting for the often-invisible work of others in his research, Robert Caro's new memoir is not so much inspiration as an exercise in self-celebration.

New York City’s first planning commissioner lost a bigger battle against Robert Moses than the fight Jane Jacobs won.

The stall-in threatened to interrupt a certain imaginary of progress, democracy, and freedom with the reality of racial injustice.

From slum clearance to beatnik protests, how Greenwich Village became a battleground over race, art, and redevelopment.

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is questioning what a socialist might accomplish as mayor of NYC. To answer it, it’s worth looking back on Fiorello La Guardia.

From India to the Amazon to Israel, bulldozers have left a path of destruction that offers a cautionary tale for how technology can be misused.