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"New York Times"
"[A] profoundly personal account of Moses's bulldozer diplomacy and its consequences for today...[Gratz] writes eloquently of her childhood in Greenwich Village, and then proves her point...Readers might not share her conclusions, but can't help being impressed with her reporting.""
Boston Review""Gratz's book is invaluable at demonstrating how a slow accumulation of bitter, contentious struggles eventually gained some traction against Moses's model of clear-cut urban-renewal schemes...She is utterly convincing about how vigilant we need to be so as not to lose any more."
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""Reason"
"In her engaging new book, "The Battle for Gotham," the journalist and urbanist Roberta Brandes Gratz chronicles Moses' reign and the unlikely resistance it sparked from the writer and activist Jane Jacobs."
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""National Review"
"Just as the ideas of Jane Jacobs bridged the Left/Right divide, a good deal of Gratz's book appeals not just to the Left (it's published by Nation Books, after all), but also to Reason-style libertarians...["The Battle for Gotham"] is worth reading."
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""New York Post"
"[The Battle for Gotham] provides food for thought for the current crisis."
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""Metropolis Magazine"
"Gratz's essential recommendations - an adherence to principles of considered, context-driven design - still stand, shored convincingly by a half-century of history, public and personal. The result could seem like several books combined into one, but with adroit narration it avoids feeling claustrophobic. "The Battle for Gotham" is an account of the past crafted to support a claim about the future; an homage to a friend who, when it comes to cities, happened to be one of the most influential thinkers of the past century; and a cogent argument for revisiting her ideas and adapting them to a different time and, inevitably, a different New York." Booklist
"Though Gratz covers a number of key battlegrounds - Soho, Washington Square P
