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Building New York’s Future and Its Past

Books That Look at Bill de Blasio’s First Year as Mayor, Urban Design and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

FEB. 20, 2015

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who started fighting for socialist and liberal causes as a teenager. Credit Tamiment Library, New York University

 

Building New York’s Future and Its Past

By SAM ROBERTS

New books examine the start of Mr. de Blasio’s tenure, case studies in participatory planning, and an early-20th-century fighter for socialist causes.