{"product_id":"movement-new-yorks-long-war-to-take-back-its-streets-from-the-car-hardback-9781531508210","title":"Movement; New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car (Hardback) 9781531508210","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMovement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicole Gelinas (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531508210, Fordham University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e576 pages, 39 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 4.4 cm, 0.975 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER, 2025 GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e InsideHook: The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This November\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic recovery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1969, as all students of New York City history think they have learned, master builder Robert Moses lost his long battle to urbanist Jane Jacobs over his planned Lower Manhattan Expressway. The ten-lane elevated expressway would have sliced across SoHo and Little Italy, demolishing historic buildings, and displacing thousands of families and businesses. Jacobs and her neighbors defeated Moses, and as a result, New York became the only major American city with no interstate highway running through its core. Like many global cities, though, New York had spent fifty years during the first half of the twentieth century trying and failing to tame its heavily populated landscape to fit the private automobile. New York has now spent more than fifty years trying to undo those mistakes, wresting back city space for people, not cars.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMovement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car \u003c\/i\u003echronicles the earlier, less-known battles that preceded the cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway: Jacobs became an example for generations of urban planners, but whose example did Jacobs emulate in an earlier victory that saved Washington Square Park? Moses may serve handily as New York's uber-villain now, but who, before him, was responsible for destroying a critical part of New York's transit system?\u003cbr\u003e A well respected urban writer who has focused on New York's transportation system for more than a decade, author Nicole Gelinas resumes the story where Robert Caro's landmark \u003ci\u003eThe Power Broker \u003c\/i\u003eended. \u003ci\u003eMovement \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how, in the half-century leading up to the COVID- 19 pandemic, New York's re-embracement of its mass-transit system and a livable streetscape helped save the city. Gelinas tackles the 1970s environmental movement, the 1980s rebuilding of the subways, and more contemporary battles, from Mayor Bloomberg's push for more pedestrian plazas and bike lanes in the early 2000s, to transportation advocates' protests to prevent traffic deaths in the Mayor de Blasio era of the 2010s, to how New York's stewardship of its streets and subways have played a critical role during the 2020 pandemic and subsequent recovery. \u003cbr\u003e Introducing a cast of transportation heroes to rival Jane Jacobs (Shirley Hayes, Hazel Henderson, Richard Ravitch, Nilka Martell) and puncturing the myth of Moses as New York's anti-hero, \u003ci\u003eMovement \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how New York City has helped redefine what it means to be a global city: not a place that is easy to drive through, but a place where people can take transit, walk, and bike to work, to school, or just for fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e  1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Driving to the Brink\u003c\/b\u003e   5\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eNew York's Original Sin: Scrapping Street Transit   7\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. \u003c\/b\u003eThe 1929 Regional Plan: Paving New York's Car Future   23\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eKids versus Cars: A Housewife's Fight to Save Washington Square Park   43\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Changing Times (and Minds): Defeating the Lower Manhattan Expressway   65\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e No Way on Westway: A Watery Grave for Manhattan's Last Highway   79\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Getting Back on Track\u003c\/b\u003e   103\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6. \u003c\/b\u003eStruck City: The Shutdown That Stressed the Value of Transit   105\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7. \u003c\/b\u003eSkull Practice at Triborough: Confronting Decades of Mass- Transit Deficits   118\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8. \u003c\/b\u003eNixon's Nudge: The Federal Laws That Forced a New Direction   143\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Lion of the MTA: The Push to Rebuild New York's Transit   159\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10. \u003c\/b\u003eFrom Fear Train to Packed Train: Securing New York's Subways   180\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Beyond Transit: Wrestling with New York's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsphalt Legacy\u003c\/b\u003e   201\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11. \u003c\/b\u003eSplitting Lanes: From Bike Nuts to Bike Share   203\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e12. \u003c\/b\u003eFreedom to Walk: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Play Streets   242\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e13. \u003c\/b\u003eKilled in the Crosswalk: Turning Tragedies into Progress   271\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e14. \u003c\/b\u003eYellow, Green, Black: The Struggle to Limit Ride Services   297\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e15. \u003c\/b\u003eThou Shalt Not Park Here: The Politics of Public Parking   327\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e16. \u003c\/b\u003eOur Right to Park: The High Cost of Residential Parking   348\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 4: Unfinished Business\u003c\/b\u003e   361\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e17. \u003c\/b\u003eFast Forward: Plans to Fix New York's Bus System   363\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e18.\u003c\/b\u003e Ban, Charge, or Suffer: The Forever Politics of Congestion Pricing   378\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e19. \u003c\/b\u003eTwo Miles: Bronx Mothers versus the Ghost of Moses   404\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e20. \u003c\/b\u003eDeliveristas and Dining Sheds: Locked- Down New York Unlocks Its Streets   420\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e21.\u003c\/b\u003e Sick Transit: Whither the Subways—and New York?   440\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  457\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  461\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  553\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  557\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eInsert follows page 286\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Empire State Editions","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702306238744,"sku":"9781531508210","price":33.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/movement-new-yorks-long-war-to-take-back-its-streets-from-the-car-hardback-9781531508210","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}