NYC losing its soul? Where have we heard that before? · Sep 21, 02:46 PM
TONY 9/20/07
Oh yeah, it is the subject of our recent book The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World’s Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?. Well, we are grateful to Time Out New York for keeping the subject alive.
We are about to take the conversation to the next level. Princeton Architectural Press will publish the companion book to the JANE JACOBS AND THE FUTURE OF NEW YORK exhibition at the Municipal Art Society’s Urban Center galleries at 457 Madison Avenue in New York City. The book will be available for sale at Urban Center books on-site and at fine bookstores everywhere.
The exhibit begins on September 25, 2007 and will run until January 5, 2008. During the exhibit, gallery hours will be extended to 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Wednesdays, and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sundays.
The exhibit is part of a larger Jane Jacobs initiative that includes panel discussions, walking tours, a student internship program, a sustainability and livability project in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn.
You can read a preview of the exhibition here.
Block by Block examines the lasting impact and continued relevance of Jane Jacobs’s work on contemporary urban life. An impressive lineup of highly acclaimed writers, historians, architects, civic leaders, and cultural critics speculates on how Jacobs’s ideas continue to inform the power brokers, politicians, ordinary citizens, and grassroots activists influencing the physical transformation of New York and, by extension, all great cities today. Contributors include, Marshall Berman, Nathan Glazer, David Grahame Shane, Saskia Sassen, Adam Gopnik, Malcolm Gladwell and Danny Lyon.
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