THE CONTEXT.
History.
Law: Design, Operation, and Enforcement.
Record.
Research.
THE SPACES.
Lower Manhattan.
Midtown Manhattan.
Upper Manhattan.
Brooklyn and Queens.
Afterword.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Table: Privately Owned Public Spaces, by Address and
Classification.
Photography Credits.
Contacts.
Index.
JEROLD S. KAYDEN, a lawyer and urban planner, is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has published widely, coauthoring Landmark Justice: The Influence of William J. Brennan on America’s Communities and coediting Zoning and the American Dream: Promises Still to Keep.
THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING guides the City’s physical development and formulates land use plans and strategic policies with major goals that include encouraging housing and economic development, improving the City’s quality of life, and preserving its neighborhoods.
THE MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK is a private, nonprofit membership organization that champions excellence in urban design and planning, and preservation of the best of New York’s past. Situated in the Urban Center in midtown Manhattan, the Society engages citizens on issues of the city’s built environment.
"This extensive work provides for the first time a detailed look at
the city's experience, pro and con, through photographs, maps, site
plans, observed behaviors, and extensive notes."
(Urbanparadoxes.com, 5/08) "The Introduction to Privately Owned
Private Space is a history of New York City's attempts at planning
and zoning beginning in 1916 and continuing to the present. The
detail of the history is sharp while not talking down to the
novice, and the politics is fascinating." (ArchitectureWeek.com,
April 25, 2001)
"The book should also appeal to any enthusiast of urban spaces
anywhere in the world, because the lessons learned in the "Big
Apple" are applicable anywhere. This is a history book, an
incredibly detailed map of the New York City, and a lesson in
civics all rolled into one." (F.L. Andrew Padian,
ArchitectureWeek.com)
"This long overdue collaborative effort among urban planning
professor Jerold Kayden, New York City's Department of Planning,
and the Municipal Art Society, and involving dozens of researchers,
is one of the most important books to be published about New York
City in years.... Along the same lines, in today's publishing
environment, most commercial trade publishers would not likely be
interested, and too many high-quality, general interest, New York
City-related titles must vie for the limited resources of a few
university presses or very small publishing houses that do not have
the resources to take on this kind of project -- congratulations to
John Wiley for publishing this book." (Bradley Beach Books, 9/01)
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