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In 1966, his wife Ina changed the topic of her graduate thesis to write about the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, while he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University taking courses in urban planning and land use.

He found that academics ' notions of highway planning contrasted with what he had seen as a reporter.

" Here were these mathematical formulas about traffic density and population density and so on ," he recalled, " and all of a sudden I said to myself: ' This is completely wrong.

This isn't why highways get built.

Highways get built because Robert Moses wants them built there.

If you don't find out and explain to people where Robert Moses gets his power, then everything else you do is going to be dishonest.

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