Read “What Happened to Haussmann” by Robert Moses, and look at the passages in David Harvey’s “The Right to the City” concerning Robert Moses,and the passage from Marshall Berman’s ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR on Moses.

Read “What Happened to Haussmann” by Robert Moses, and look at the passages in David Harvey’s “The Right to the City” concerning Robert Moses,and the passage from Marshall Berman’s ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR on Moses. Skim through the pdf of the book, THE CITY, by Robert Park and Ernest Burgess, using the key search words, “communication” and “isolation.” Are there similarities in their thinking? Can we see Park and Burgess’s Chicago School thought as a support for Moses’ program for “urban renewal” of New York City in the 1940s – 1960s? What assumptions do they share about the beneficial effects of the development of the city by market capitalist forces, and the backwardness of communities who resist it? Are Moses’ criticisms of Haussman’s work somewhat ironic? How do they compare with the problems of his own urban renewal program after he wrote this, as discussed by Robert Caro and Marshall Berman in the video clip from the documentary on the history of New York? For example, he complains that Haussmann engaged in overspending. How did Moses “solve” that problem, or did he solve it, and if he did, how was he criticized for his solution? Use short quotes from these texts, cite, and explicate–putting in your own words, and giving your interpretations.