An Urban Legend

Fifty years after the publication of The Power Broker, the legacy of urban planner Robert Moses is ripe for revisiting.

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At the end of his 2019 memoir, Working, Robert Caro subtly admits that the portrait he constructed of Robert Moses in The Power Broker has not stood up over time. Published in 1974, that title introduced Moses, New York’s “master builder,” to the world as a villain whose vision for the city was corrupt and […]

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