The main thrust of Loughran’s paper “Parks for Profit: The High Line, Growth Machines, and the Uneven Development of Urban Public Spaces” seems to be the emphasis of the High Line as the paradigm for the new trend in development, in which…

Kevin Loughran states that the High Line preservation effort had its roots in the city’s elite. He lists professionals, politicians, and celebrities who backed Friends of the High Line, and traces its path to achieving city government approval. Loughran argues that the High Line is geared…

In Professor Larson’s chapter about Burden in the Bloomberg Era we see a thread of information throughout that leads us to the conclusion that Amanda Burden was, in fact, responsible for the “progression” of the city’s urban landscape and redevelopment…

Amanda Burden is known to value the aesthetics of the architecture within the city. She needs buildings and parks to look a certain way, and is apparently ready to spend more money and time simply to perfect that. Both Burden…

Amanda Burden, chair of the New York City Planning Commission during the Bloomberg administration, believes that design is an important element to consider in urban development. Burden shares many views with Jane Jacobs such as encouraging social interaction and the…

When zoning was first instituted under the framework of the 1916 Zoning Resolution it was “the nation’s first complex set of rules governing how land can be used, and where and how structures can be built” (Farley). It was a…