Further Readings

Real Estate, Housing and Inequality

Towers of Secrecy, a New York Times series on foreign money and NYC real estate

Part 1: Time Warner Center Symbol of Boom

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/stream-of-foreign-wealth-flows-to-time-warner-condos.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Part 3: Amid complaints in India, a real estate deal in Manhattan

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/nyregion/kabul-chawla-bptp-india-real-estate-manhattan.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Part 4: Mexican Political Family…Homes in the U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/nyregion/jose-murat-casab-mexico-pri-luxury-condos-us.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Part 5: At the Time Warner Center an Enclave of Powerful Russians

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/nyregion/jose-murat-casab-mexico-pri-luxury-condos-us.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Mayor De Blasio’s housing plan

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/nyregion/an-obstacle-to-mayor-de-blasios-affordable-housing-plan-neighborhood-resistance.html?mabReward=wCTM5&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=1

De Blasio’s Doomed Housing Plan

Parks and Public Spaces

Article on how private money influences contemporary public spaces www.newrepublic.com/article/120909/barry-dillers-pier-55-park-how-money-changing-city-parks

New York Times editorial about Barry Diller’s park and the public/private implications: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/opinion/the-billionaires-park.html?referrer=&_r=0

Fodaro, Lisa. At a Bronx Park, Dreams of Greener Landscapes. New York Times. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/03/nyregion/at-a-bronx-park-dreams-of-greener-landscapes.html?_r=0

On Robert Moses

Berman, Marshall. Robert Moses and the Expressway World, in All That’s Solid Melts Into Air.

On Jane Jacobs

Berman, Marshall. A Shout in the Street, in All That’s Solid Melts Into Air.