The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

Part I: Filters
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Notes
1 “Lofts Designed for Families,” New York Times,
15 December 1996.
2 Lewis, Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins,
Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (New
York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1961), p.
481.
3 Elliot Willensky and Norval White, AIA
Guide to New York City, 3d ed. (New York: Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, 1988), p. 578. The authors
recount the story of Alfred Treadway
White, a Brooklyn builder of the famous Tower
and Home buildings. His motto “Philanthropy
plus 5 percent” has been much quoted.
4 Kenneth Jackson, The Crabgrass Frontier:
The Suburbanization of the United States (New
York: Columbia University Press, 1987), p. 20.
5 Ibid., p. 29.
6 Manuel Castells, The Urban Question: A
Marxist Approach (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
1980), p. 402.
7 Ibid., chapter 17.
8 Ibid., p. 382.
9 Henry J. Schmandt and Warner Bloomberg,
Jr., eds., The Quality of Urban Life, Urban Affairs
Annual Reviews (New York: Sage Publications,
1969), p. 155.
10 Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, and
David Fishman, New York 1960: Architecture and
Urbanism between the Second World War and the
Bicentennial (New York: Monacelli Press, 1995),
pp. 728–729.
11 On the G.I. Bill, see Richard Plunz, The
History of Housing in New York City: Dwelling Type
and Social Change in the American Metropolis (New
York: Columbia University Press 1990), p. 261.
12 Koch is quoted in ibid., p. 371.
13 Eric Berman, “New York’s 10 Year Plan for
Housing,” Street News, 20 May 1990, p. 9.
14 “Housing Pact Is Reached in Brooklyn,” New
York Times, 6 October 1992, p. 61.
15 John R. Stilgoe, Borderland: The Origins of the
American Suburb, 1820–1939 (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1988), p. 225.
16 M. Christine Boyer, “Cities for Sale: Merchandising
History at South Street Seaport,” in
Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City
and the End of Public Space, ed. Michael Sorkin
(New York: Noonday Press, 1992).
17 Larry R. Ford, Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers,
Skid Rows, and Suburbs (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1994), pp. 216–217.
18 Tom Shachtman, Skyscraper Dreams: The
Great Real Estate Dynasties of New York (New
York: Little, Brown, 1991), p. 239.
19 M. Christine Boyer, Cybercities: Visual Perception
in the Age of Electronic Communication (Princeton:
Princeton Architectural Press, 1996), p.
163.
20 Sharon Zukin, Loft Living: Culture and Capital
in Urban Change (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1982).
21 New York Times, 14 July 1996.
22 Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the
Future in Los Angeles (London: Verso, 1990), p.
224.
23 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Articles on
Britain (New York: Progress Publishers, 1971),
p. 65.
24 Elizabeth Blackmar, Manhattan for Rent:
1785–1850 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1989), p. 151.
25 Ibid., p. 157.