Moses is referring to Jacobs’ first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. A nice talk-like introduction to her city-planning ideas by Julia Lupton, a professor of English at UC Irvine. Many pictures from the recent exhibition “Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York”.
Did you like The Power Broker?
yes, very much.
I have heard about Robert Moses’ response to Jane Jacobs’ book, but I’ve never seen the document. That’s great — and I will incorporate it into the set of lectures that you so kindly reference.
Thank you for this link, it suddenly helped me understand why Paris works as a city compared to Dallas which is just a place.
The letter is vintage — “sell this junk to someone else” — and is from the Jane Jacobs papers at the Burns Library at Boston College, where MAS got most of its material. Far as I can tell, Moses made no public comment about Death and Life; he only wrote this private letter, and let others bash her in the weeks and months following publication October 1961 … a staggering 47 years ago.