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Robert A. Caro

“You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. (Robert Moses)”

Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
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