☞ SEE: Robert Moses, Jane Jacobs & Automobiles

Monday, May 17th, 6:30 PM. Robert Moses, Jane Jacobs, and the Automobile at the Museum of the City of New York. Robert Moses always wanted to build big—including highways. Jane Jacobs wanted to preserve neighborhoods and encourage mass transit. These and other differences led to the showdown between them in Greenwich Village and engendered a debate that is still going on today.

Join Owen Gutfreund, Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College and author of Twentieth Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape (Oxford University Press, 2005), and Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of The Battle For Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs (Nation Books, 2010), for a discussion moderated by Anthony Flint, journalist and author at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and author of Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City (Random House, 2009). Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Cars, Culture, and the City.

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: $12 Non-Members, $8 Seniors and Students, $6 Museum Members. A two dollar surcharge applies for unreserved, walk-in participants. For more information call 917.492.3395. The Museum of the City of New York, located in East Harlem, is at 1220 Fifth Avenue, between 103rd and 104th Street. Nearest subway is the 6 train at 103rd Street or 2,3 at 110th Street. www.mcny.org