Public evidence record
Published podcast speaker
Claim ledger
12 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“That we need more roads? But you can't have more roads in New York because if you build more roads, what are you going to do with the cars?”
02 / belief
“I think a major difference between Robert Moses' time and our own was that historic preservation was as yet little known and little understood and little supported.”
03 / belief
“Jane Jacobs and I agree on a lot of things or did before she died a few years ago.”
04 / belief
“I think the book was flawed because I think Caro only looked at Moses's own documents and Moses had a very narrow view of himself.”
05 / belief
“I think of Moses as the polar opposite of Jane Jacobs. Think about what Jane Jacobs saw as important.”
06 / evaluation
“We can't say he's poor, but I think that Caro was right in saying that what Moses was after in the end was not sex and not money, it was Power.”
07 / evaluation
“Blow the damn roads to the black neighborhoods, build the expressway interchanges, my hometown of Memphis criss crossed with big streets, those neighborhoods gone. They're even more extensive in places like Memphis and Kansas City and New Orleans than they are in New York because New York builds relatively fewer of them.”
08 / evaluation
“I think Robert Caro deserves a lot of credit for doing research on Moses, his childhood, his growing up, his assertion that he's the most important person ever to live in and around New York.”
09 / evaluation
“I'm just saying that all these little things that you can come to about different neighborhoods and things like that. But I think Caro was right that Moses, the biggest builder of cities in the 20th century, the builder of the greatest city in the world, didn't like it.”
10 / evaluation
“I think The Power Broker was the best book I ever read and in broad strokes, it's correct.”
11 / evaluation
“New York City simply won't work if you reduce the density or you get rid of underground transportation because it's all about people moving around underneath the streets and not taking up space as they do it.”
12 / recommendation
“You've got to adapt and you've got to have a hybrid model in the world now. And I think the model that America needs to follow is a model where we reduce our dependence on the cars and somehow ride buses more or use the internet more or whatever it is, but stop using so much fossil fuels so that we destroy our environment.”