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16 de sept. de 1974 · Robert Allan Caro is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
28 de ene. de 2007 · For a generation, the standard view of Robert Moses has been that he transformed New York but didn’t really make it better. This view was shaped by Robert Caro’s epic biography “The Power ...
1 de oct. de 2008 · This book was published in conjunction with a three-part exhibition held in different locations in New York in early 2007. It is a substantial and well-produced volume consisting of a series of colour photographs, seven essays by scholars of urban history, and a catalogue of works with which the public works commissioner Robert Moses was closely involved between 1934 and 1968.
22 de abr. de 2020 · Somewhere, in their heart of hearts, all urban planners want to be Robert Moses, the master-builder of New York City. A state and municipal official for almost half a century, Moses built several bridges, an underwater tunnel, 416 miles of parkway, 2,567,256 acres of parkland, numerous public housing projects, 17 public swimming pools and 658 playgrounds.
31 de ago. de 2015 · Robert Moses, the planner-politician-architect who infamously built overpasses too low for buses to bring New York ’s urban poor to his beaches, is the subject of a new graphic novel by Pierre ...
Robert Moses murió el 29 de julio de 1981. Robert Moses ha sido muy criticado por su obsesión por hacer espacio para los automóviles, a veces a expensas de los parques y lugares históricos. Se le culpa por la ruina de Coney Island, incluido el cierre de algunos de los parques de diversiones y el éxodo de los Brooklyn Dodgers.
Nueva York en transformación. 15/11/2009. José María Ezquiaga. Robert Moses es, sin duda, uno de los personajes que ha tenido mayor influencia en la configuración contemporánea de Nueva York. Es difícil imaginar la ciudad sin el Lincoln Center, el Triborough Bridge, el Cross Bronx o la West Side Highway.
