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The Jacobs/Moses war was educational, a living curriculum now encapsulated in Flint's excellent study. --@lt;i@gt;The New York Review of Books @lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; [A] winning account . . . dramatically described . . . [Anthony] Flint looks at a seminal struggle of twentieth-century city planning, one that involved two giants with utterly differing views of how cities should look and develop. --@lt;i@gt;The Boston Globe@lt;br@gt;@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt; [This book] shows how these mythic characters shaped each other's work and reputations. . . . If there's such a thing as beach reading for the urban studies set, it's @lt;i@gt;Wrestling with Moses@lt;/i@gt;. --@lt;i@gt;San Francisco Chronicle@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;br@gt; Lively and informative . . . @lt;i@gt;Wrestling with Moses@lt;/i@gt; is about those who fought back against the power broker and in so doing helped set the stage for the city's revitalization. --@lt;i@gt;The Wall Street Journal@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;br@gt;

The Jacobs/Moses war was educational, a living curriculum now encapsulated in Flint's excellent study. -The New York Review of Books [A] winning account . . . dramatically described . . . [Anthony] Flint looks at a seminal struggle of twentieth-century city planning, one that involved two giants with utterly differing views of how cities should look and develop. -The Boston Globe [This book] shows how these mythic characters shaped each other's work and reputations. . . . If there's such a thing as beach reading for the urban studies set, it's Wrestling with Moses. -San Francisco Chronicle Lively and informative . . . Wrestling with Moses is about those who fought back against the power broker and in so doing helped set the stage for the city's revitalization. -The Wall Street Journal Well told . . . one of America's greatest David and Goliath stories. -The Hartford Courant

The Jacobs/Moses war was educational, a living curriculum now encapsulated in Flint's excellent study. -- The New York Review of Books <br><br> [A] winning account . . . dramatically described . . . [Anthony] Flint looks at a seminal struggle of twentieth-century city planning, one that involved two giants with utterly differing views of how cities should look and develop. -- The Boston Globe<br> <br> [This book] shows how these mythic characters shaped each other's work and reputations. . . . If there's such a thing as beach reading for the urban studies set, it's Wrestling with Moses . -- San Francisco Chronicle <br> <br> Lively and informative . . . Wrestling with Moses is about those who fought back against the power broker and in so doing helped set the stage for the city's revitalization. -- The Wall Street Journal <br> <br> Well told . . . one of America's greatest David and Goliath stories. -- The Hartford Courant<br>

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Anthony Flint is the director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think-tank on land and development issues located in Cambridge, MA, and was a reporter at The Boston Globe for sixteen years. He is the author of This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America. He lives in Boston.

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