Robert Moses
Robert Moses (December 18th 1888 with New Haven (Connecticut) - July 29th 1981) is a American town planner , craftsman of the restoration of New York between 1930 and 1950. His/her father is commercial considered and real estate agent.
He makes his studies with the Université of Yale and spends some time to Europe.
Its principal work is the modernization of New York. Even if it forever elected at the municipal council of the city, it profits from a great influence near this last of years 1930 at the years 1950.
Its beginnings
It enters to the town hall of New York via Al Smith, and starts by creating the Parc Jones Beach.
Then it benefits from the subsidies permitted by the New Deal for financier his campaign modernization of New York to put its plans at work.
Source
For more information on the life of Moses, the historian Robert Caro wrote an imposing work The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall off New York .
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