Main entry:

Sagalyn, Lynne B.

Title & Author:

Times Square roulette : remaking the city icon / Lynne B. Sagalyn.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.

Description:

xviii, 620 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-588) and index.
Planning: Creating Agents of Change -- Staging a Transformation -- The Late Great White Way -- The Public Takes Charge -- Deals for Development -- The Open Tab -- Implementation: The Politics of Complex Ambitions -- Troubled Execution -- The Litigation Trap -- Rescripting Renewal -- Inventing an Entertainment Agenda -- Business Buys Broadway -- Disney Deliverance -- Policy Scorecard: Assessing the Gamble -- The Reluctant Risk Taker -- Quiescent Policy Dilemmas -- The Messages of Renewal -- Executive Administrations -- Policy Strategies and Public Actions to Improve Conditions in Times Square -- Chronology of the Redevelopment of Times Square and West 42nd Street -- Formal and Informal Points of Accountability -- New Private Investment on West 42nd Street.

Summary:

"In Times Square Roulette, Lynne Sagalyn debunks the myth of an overnight urban miracle performed by Disney and Mayor Giuliani, to tell the far more complex and commanding tale of a twenty-year process of public controversy, nonstop litigation, and seemingly interminable delay. She tells how the troubled execution of the original redevelopment plan provided a rare opportunity to rescript it. And timing was all: The mid-1990s saw rising international corporate interest in the city as a mecca for mass-market entertainment and synergistic merchandising. Sagalyn details the complex relationship between planning and politics and the role of market forces in shaping Times Square's redevelopment opportunities. She shows how policy was wedded to deal making and how persistent individuals and groups forged both."--Jacket.

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Verlagsinformation

ISBN:

0262194627 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262194624 (hc. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning New York (State) New York.
Urban renewal New York (State) New York.
Tourism and city planning New York (State) New York.
Urbanisme New York (État) New York.
Rénovation urbaine New York (État) New York.
Tourisme et urbanisme New York (État) New York.
City planning.
Politics and government
Tourism and city planning.
Urban renewal.
Stadtplanung
Stadsvernieuwing.
City planning New York (State).
Times Square (New York, N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.) Politics and government.
New York (N.Y.) Politique et gouvernement.
New York (N.Y.) Administration.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Times Square.
Times Square
New York (N.Y.) City planning.
New York (N.Y.) Times Square.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219422
Call No.: NA9072.N48 T5 2001
Status: Available