A panel discussion moderated by Tom Finkelpearl, director of the Queens Museum of Art, featuring the authors of four papers: Blagovesta Momchedikova, The Panorama of the City of New York: Robert Moses’ Gigantic Visions of the City as Reflected in the Miniature Metropolis in the Museum Marta Gutman, The Place of Play: Robert Moses and […]

A panel discussion moderated by Hilary Ballon and featuring the authors of four papers: Mathew Lasner, Co-op Village, Co-op Nation Roberta Moudry, Met Life’s Metropolis: Housing Initiatives in New York City Samuel Zipp, The Battle of Lincoln Square: Neighborhood Culture and Resistance to Urban Renewal Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Reassessing Robert Moses’ Influence on New York […]

Robert Caro, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Knopf, 1974) and the three-volume The Years of Lyndon Johnson, will offer reflections on the career of Robert Moses three decades after the publication of his seminal biography.

Since Robert Moses’s time, there has been a paradigm shift in the way development takes place in New York City. This panel will address the nature of that shift and explore how present-day developers and public agencies address such key issues as the design and scale of projects, local participation in decision marking, and the […]

A panel discussion moderated by Susan Henshaw Jones, director of the Museum of the City of New York, and featuring Jameson W. Doig, Robert Fishman, Kenneth T. Jackson, Lynne Sagalyn and Hilary Ballon.