Reassessing Robert Moses’ Legacy

“As historical revisionism goes, this reassessment is probably overdue, but the rehabilitation of Robert Moses is not an easy walk down memory lane. Revisionist scholarship questions received opinions and reassesses accepted points of view. The acknowledged purpose here is to add balance to a story in which the brilliant restructuring of the public realm has been obscured by projects that rode roughshod over history and neighborhoods with an unfeeling arrogance of epic proportions that lingers in the collective mind.”