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Money jungle : imagining the new Times Square /
Benjamin Chesluk weaves together surprising stories of everyday life in and around the Times Square redevelopment, tracing the connections between people from every level of this grand project in social and spatial engineering: the developers, architects, and designers responsible for reshaping the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Benjamin Chesluk weaves together surprising stories of everyday life in and around the Times Square redevelopment, tracing the connections between people from every level of this grand project in social and spatial engineering: the developers, architects, and designers responsible for reshaping the urban public spaces of Times Square and Forty-second Street; the experimental Midtown Community Court and its Times Square Ink. job-training program for misdemeanor criminals; encounters between NYPD officers and residents of Hells Kitchen; and angry confrontations between city planners and neighbo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-216) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813543819 0813543819 1281224219 9781281224217 9786611224219 6611224211 |