During Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Robert Caro's research into the legacy of Robert Moses, he explored how the so-called "master builder" used public works to advance a discriminatory agenda. For instance, Moses's development of Jones Beach relied heavily on the construction of bridges and parkways that excluded poor people and people of color by preventing the passage of public transit. "This is what public works, public policy, does to the powerless," says Caro. | Democracy Now!

📚 Imagine all of the notes that Robert Caro had in order to write the 1,162 page book The Power Broker?! At The New York Historical museum @nyhistory you can see an exhibition on how Robert Caro wrote the book that detailed Robert Moses’ four decades in power as NYC’s master urban planner. | Urbanist Ariel