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Robert A. Caro · 1974
The definitive narrative of how Moses's highways and bridge approaches cut through neighbourhoods like the South Bronx and Sunset Park, and the essential starting point for understanding the city he remade.
Jane Jacobs · 1961
Jacobs wrote directly against Moses-era expressway and urban renewal schemes, and her close reading of how roads and clearance projects destroy street life makes the neighbourhood consequences vivid and concrete.
David McCullough · 1972
Though it is the Brooklyn Bridge rather than the subway, McCullough's book is the gold standard for the engineering and politics of building New York's infrastructure, showing how ambition, corruption and municipal power shaped the city's transport.
Joe Flood · 2010
A readable account of how housing policy and data driven decisions shaped the fate of working class neighbourhoods like the South Bronx, connecting everyday life to the larger story of the modern city.
Jonathan Mahler · 2007
A vivid narrative of New York's mid-1970s fiscal and social breakdown, weaving the blackout, the Son of Sam summer, the Yankees, and the city's near-bankruptcy into one readable story.
David Levering Lewis · 1981
A lively, authoritative narrative of the Harlem Renaissance that treats Harlem as the beating heart of Black cultural and political ambition in early twentieth century New York.
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