From the mid-1920s, Robert Moses spent four decades remaking New York with parks, bridges, throughways and public housing projects.

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Just as urban planner Robert Moses shaped the way many modern cities are structured, Jobs set the standard for how digital music is bought, consumed, and (sometimes) created.

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Another park impresario made it worse: In 1959, Robert Moses filled in the lake, and left Lincoln to gaze at the rear fence of a skating rink for 52 years.

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In one of the series' most poignant moments, at the dedication of the Verrazano in 1964, the great New York planner Robert Moses steps up to the microphone to introduce Ammann, then a frail 85.

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Wall Street boomed, the United Nations picked a Manhattan spot on the East River as its base, and developer Robert Moses lit a fuse on city projects that created the skyline that is so familiar to us today.

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What people like Robert Moses, founder of the Algebra Project, and Grace Boggs, one of the founders of Detroit Summer, recognize, is that we've got to engage our children in the effort to rebuild and remold our cities.

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