Christopher Hume
thestar.com
6 October 2007

For years, Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses have represented warring visions of city-building. Yet a reassessment of the latter's work in remaking post-war New York City has opened the door to an intriguing marriage of their ideas

However tempting it may be to view the world in black and white, it exists mainly in shades of grey.

According to conventional wisdom, there's Robert Moses, the champion of the mega-project and urban renewal, in one corner. In the other, there's Jane Jacobs, the great defender and interpreter of the city, and its web of organized chaos.

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