Robert Moses, America's Nondriving Urbanist

American urban planner Robert Moses, the man most responsible for shaping American cities around cars and highways, never learned to drive. Over four decades, he conceived, funded, and built a highway and parkway network that reoriented the New York region around automobiles and opened Long Island to mass suburbanization. His approach established a template for urban highway design that cities across the United States followed.

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