Times Square Roulette
Subtitle: Remaking the City Icon
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780262194624
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban communities; New York - Local History; Urban Policy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; Architecture / Planning; Public Policy - Regional Planning; United States - State & Local - General; City planning; New York; New York (State); Tourism and city planning; Urban renewal
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.