The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space
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Part I: Filters 102 5 103 William Menking 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.

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