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The success of Bryant Park’s renovation and renewal is in part the product of the work and ideas of remarkable authors. In this section you will find books that have championed the ideas on which we have built Bryant Park's management, or that dedicate some of their content to Bryant Park.
Christmas Feet is a walk in the park. Bryant Park. On a quest to tick off a last-minute holiday shopping list, Carlos the French Bulldog runs smack dab into the spirit of Christmas. The third book in a series featuring New York landmarks, Christmas Feet highlights Bryant Park's holiday season. Written by Maureen Sullivan. Illustrated by Alison Josephs.
Produced by the Urban Land Institute in cooperation with The Trust for Public Land, this book offers practical, cost-effective strategies for creating urban parks and open spaces. Illustrated in full color, the 225 page book describes how successful park and open space projects contribute to a community's economy and quality of life. Fifteen case studies reveal how communities across the country have envisioned, funded, and created successful parks.
Everything that anybody (whether they are citizen activists, or public officials, or professional landscape architects, architects, and planners) needs to know about the critical role public parks play in creating livable communities. Millions of dollars are being spent on restoring parks and creating new ones. Planner Alexander Garvin explains the rationales for their existence, the forms they take, their value, ways to pay for and govern them, and the ingredients that make successful parks, providing the first single definitive source of wisdom about them.
Whyte's Street Life Project studied the use of urban spaces for 16 years. This follow-up to The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces is an engaging look at the variety of human interactions which make "downtown" vibrant. Whyte looks at such diverse topics as pedestrian movement, concourses and skyways, sunlight and its effects, all from the perspective of a confirmed city-lover. His observations and recommendations can be read with profit and pleasure by professional planners and readers interested in what makes a city tick.
By following many of the principles outlined in the book, concentrating primarily on the prevention of “small scale crime” and nuisances, Bryant Park was reclaimed from vagrants and drug dealers in the 1980’s. Today we continue to aggressively monitor loud radios, cursing, spitting, and people leering at women or seeking to make a spectacle of themselves. Of course, we also clean up graffiti, pick up litter, and keep the space beautiful and well maintained. Fixing Broken Windows is a terrific read into understanding how your favorite public spaces remain safe and friendly.
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In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture departments around the world.
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