ACADEMIC
Dissertation: Whose Streets? Paving the Right to the City (2011)
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Whose Streets? explores the conditions under which New York City’s streets, beginning in 2006, became a target for the city government’s “sustainability” goals. These goals confronted the longstanding dominance of private, motorized movement in NYC streets and its many externalities. "Sustainable Streets" ultimately was an infrastructure plan that disputed the incalculable costs of lost productivity, congestion, air pollution, and diseases of passivity that come with automobile-centric planning. As such, the plan accelerated a path to new forms of economic growth led by dense new housing, feet, pedals, waterfronts, and parks. Through interviews, participant observation and secondary analysis, I illuminate how economic elites, government technocrats, and historically marginal social movement actors mobilized a common entrepreneurial agenda to preserve New York’s global city status. These unlikely groups found common ground over access to streets and public space in New York City’s greening asphalt.
Key words: Urban Sociology, Sociology of Mobility, growth machine, right to the city
Key words: Urban Sociology, Sociology of Mobility, growth machine, right to the city
Book Chapters
2011. “Re-Placing Streets: Putting the Place Back in Streets.” (with Pippa Brashear) Chapter 12 in Model Design Manual for Living Streets Ryan Snyder and Associates, Ed.
2010. “Integrated Reporting in a Competitive World of Cities.” (pp. 111-119) in The Landscape of Integrated Reporting Robert G. Eccles, Beiting Cheng and Daniela Saltzman, Ed. Harvard Business School e-book.
2010. “Integrated Reporting in a Competitive World of Cities.” (pp. 111-119) in The Landscape of Integrated Reporting Robert G. Eccles, Beiting Cheng and Daniela Saltzman, Ed. Harvard Business School e-book.
Articles
2015. "World Within Worlds: Inside EMP Museum's New Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction Gallery" Arcade Magazine. (Issue 33.1. 23 June)
2010. “Guest View: Adding Bike Lanes Adds to Public Spaces” The Pasadena Star-News. (Opinion. 06 March)
2009. “Book Review: In Pursuit of a Streets Revolution” www.streetsblog.org (10 March)
2008. “San Francisco Debuts Car-Free Sunday Streets” www.streetsblog.org (5 September)
2008. “Summer Streets: Bikes and Pedestrians Get Along Fine Without Cars” www.streetsblog.org (12 August)
2007. “Pedaling Hope.” Magazine on Urbanism. (Winter)
2010. “Guest View: Adding Bike Lanes Adds to Public Spaces” The Pasadena Star-News. (Opinion. 06 March)
2009. “Book Review: In Pursuit of a Streets Revolution” www.streetsblog.org (10 March)
2008. “San Francisco Debuts Car-Free Sunday Streets” www.streetsblog.org (5 September)
2008. “Summer Streets: Bikes and Pedestrians Get Along Fine Without Cars” www.streetsblog.org (12 August)
2007. “Pedaling Hope.” Magazine on Urbanism. (Winter)
VISUAL + AUDIO
"Hal Grades Your Bike Locking" @ www.streetfilms.org. 4 May 2014.
"Consultant Finds Delivery Paths" in Crains New York Business: Gotham Gigs. 13 October 2013.
"Barclays Center Tests Out Bike Valet Service" @ www.ny1.com. 5 JUNE 2013.
"My NYC Biking Story" @ www.streetfilms.org. 22 June 2013.
"My NYC Biking Story" @ www.streetfilms.org. 22 June 2013.