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A well respected urban writer who has focused on New Yorks transportation system for more than a decade, author Nicole Gelinas resumes the story where Robert Caros landmark The Power Broker ended. Movement: New Yorks Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car explores how, in the half-century leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, New Yorks re-embracement of its mass-transit system and a livable streetscape helped save the city. Gelinas tackles the 1970s environmental movement, the 1980s rebuilding of the subways, and more contemporary battles, from Mayor Bloombergs push for more pedestrian plazas and bike lanes in the early 2000s, to transportation advocates protests to prevent traffic deaths in the Mayor de Blasio era of the 2010s, to how New Yorks stewardship of its streets and subways have played a critical role during the 2020 pandemic and subsequent recovery.
Introducing a cast of transportation heroes to rival Jane Jacobs (Shirley Hayes, Hazel Henderson, Richard Ravitch, Nilka Martell) and puncturing the myth of Moses as New Yorks anti-hero, Movement explores how New York City has helped redefine what it means to be a global city: not a place that is easy to drive through, but a place where people can take transit, walk, and bike to work, to school, or just for fun.