Category Archives: March
Keeping Our City Afloat/Brand-Name Living
“New York, New Deal” examines what New York was like immediately following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. I enjoyed reading the different proposals people had to rebuild the Downtown area, and I appreciate that the article addressed many … Continue reading
NYC: A Complicated Love Story
To contrast Bloomberg’s New York and The New Deal spurs off many opposing, yet both logical ideas and thoughts. While we can all agree that New York City is quite a complicated and complex place, the approach to fixing our … Continue reading
I Wouldn’t Mind a New Age New Deal
How to alleviate economic woes in New York City? Well, that’s a loaded question. We were presented with two almost contrasting views this week on attempts and theories for correcting some of the economic issues that have resulted from or … Continue reading
Not Everyone Agrees with Bloomberg
Bloomberg’s plan was to display New York City as a single product to attract businesses to settle in New York. Branding New York City as the “Luxurious City” would ensure that only the elite companies, which were not concerned with … Continue reading
I <3 NY
To my surprise, I found this weeks readings pretty interesting. Branding NY in general was such an interesting concept to me. It was great reading about the “I Love NY” plan of the 70s, if only because it is still … Continue reading
Solutions to the Recession
The readings from The New Deal and Bloomberg’s New York both address different ways to deal with New York’s economy. In this case, the recession is the question in concern. On one end Wallace proposes to solve New York City’s … Continue reading
Bloomberg, our corporate mayor.
Michael Bloomberg has been mayor of New York for a considerate length of time. Of all the 108 mayors the city has seen, Bloomberg definitely goes down as one of the more unique mayors. His approach to running New York … Continue reading
CEO of NYC
The author’s claim that the postwar history of New York set a background in which a charismatic CEO like Michael Bloomberg could be elected was very interesting. One of our readings from another week talked about the time after World … Continue reading
Is it Really Such a Novelty that a Business Person is Able to Run New York?
Mayor Bloomberg is a business guy who seems to be pretty effective (I won’t say good lest I offend people) at running one of the greatest cities in the world. Different possible reasons are given as to what makes him … Continue reading
Charisma or Credentials?
Something that always troubled me about politicians as a group is that oftentimes, their expertise is not in politics at all. You can’t become a CEO after being trained as a nutritionist. You won’t end up Surgeon General if your … Continue reading
