
The City the Rich Built — and Broke
A new history traces how elite-driven development made New York richer on paper and poorer in practice.
Juliana DeVaan is a PhD candidate in US history at Columbia University, where she studies 20th-century cultural and intellectual history, focusing on dance and performance.

A new history traces how elite-driven development made New York richer on paper and poorer in practice.

Fifty years after the publication of The Power Broker, the legacy of urban planner Robert Moses is ripe for revisiting.