Common Event
Readings
February 11
“One Block in Brooklyn, 1880-Present“, New York Magazine.
February 16
Davidson, “Can Andrew Cuomo Be a Less Toxic Robert Moses?”, New York Magazine.
Lopate, “Rethinking Robert Moses”, Metropolis Magazine.
February 18
Dreier, Peter, “Jane Jacobs’ Radical Legacy”, National Housing Institute.
Jacobs, Jane, “Downtown is for People”, Fortune Magazine.
February 25
Saltz, Jerry, “New York Has Solved the Problem of Public Art. But at What Cost?”, New York Magazine.
Wallace-Wells, Benjamin, “Waze and the Politics of Public Space”, New York Magazine.
March 1
Bourne, “The High Line: New York’s Monument to Gentrification”, The Millions.
Higgins, “New York’s High Line: Why the Floating Promenade is So Popular”, The Washington Post.
Sauchelli et al., “High Line Far Less Polluted Than Sidewalk Beneath It”, The New York Post.
March 3
Florida, “The Rise of the Creative Class”, The Washington Monthly.
Grynbaum et al., “Mayor de Blasio Raises Prospect of Removing Times Square Pedestrian Plazas”, The New York Times.
March 10
Gregor, “Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Gets Its Turn”, The New York Times.
Rotondaro, “The Ins and Outs”, Narratively.
March 15
Harris, “Brooklyn’s Williamsburg Becomes New Front Line of The Gentrification Battle”, The Guardian.
Idov, “Clash of the Bearded Ones: Hipsters, Hasids, and the Williamsburg Street”, New York Magazine.
Kurutz, “Caught in the Hipster Trap”, The New York Times.
March 24
Greenwald, “A Very Brief History of Why It’s So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens”, Atlantic Cities.
Montgomery, [Excerpts], Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design.
March 29
Goodyear, “Two-thirds of New York City Voters Say They Want Better Bike and Pedestrian Infrastructure”, Atlantic Cities.
Jaffe, “The New Penn Station Will Inherit an Old Problem”, The Atlantic.
Quirk, “The Big U: New York City’s Vision for “Rebuild by Design””, Arch Daily.
March 31
Dolnick, “Staying Put in a City of Change”, The New York Times.
Tabor, “How Has Chinatown Stayed Chinatown?”, New York Magazine.
April 5
Jorgensen, “Three Years After Hurricane Sandy Is New York City Safer?”, Observer.
Lipton, “Housing Agency’s Flaws Revealed by Storm”, The New York Times.
McGeehan, “Lower Manhattan Residents Still Grapple with Recovery”, The New York Times.
April 7
Navarro, “For Many Latinos, Racial Identity is More Culture Than Color”, The New York Times.
Rampell, “The Beginning of the End of the Census?”, The New York Times.
April 12
Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, The Atlantic.
Soroka, “Mass Media and Policymaking”, Routledge Handbook of Public Policy.
April 14
The Community Toolbox, “Understanding and Describing the Community.”
Kawulich, “Participation Observation as a Data Collection Method”, Forum: Qualitative Social Research.
April 21
Burton, “Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up”, The New York Times Magazine.
Keller et al., “Semi-structured Interviews”, SSWM.info.
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