{"product_id":"times-square-remade-isbn-9780262048545","title":"Times Square Remade","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe illuminating evolution of the iconic space of Times Square.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of character, the place has maintained a unique hold on our collective imagination?\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eIn this book, which comes twenty years after her widely acclaimed \u003ci\u003eTimes Square Roulette\u003c\/i\u003e, Lynne Sagalyn masterfully tells the story of profound urban change over decades in the symbolic space that is New York City’s Times Square. Drawing on the history, sociology, and political economy of the place, \u003ci\u003eTimes Square Remade \u003c\/i\u003eexamines how the public-private transformation of 42nd Street at Times\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eSquare impacted the entertainment district and adjacent neighborhoods, particularly Hell’s\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eKitchen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSagalyn chronicles the earliest halcyon days of 42nd Street and Times Square as the nexus of speculation and competitive theater building as well as its darkest days as vice central, and on to the years of aggressive government intervention to cleanse West 42nd Street of pornography and crime. Thematically, the author analyzes the three main forces that have shaped and reshaped Times Square—theater, real estate, and pornography—and explains the politics and economics of what got built and what has been restored or preserved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccompanied by nearly 160 images, more than half in color, \u003ci\u003eTimes Square Remade\u003c\/i\u003e is a deftly woven narrative of urban transformation that will appeal as much to the general reader and New York City enthusiast as to urbanists, city planners, architects, urban designers, and policymakers.\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eArchitectural Record\u003c\/i\u003e's Notable Books of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ms. Sagalyn has produced a conscientious, monumental work...It’s the kind of treatment suitable for studies of epic periods like the fall of the Roman Empire.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Times Square Remade\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and well-researched account of Times Square and 42nd Street’s urban transformations during the last 150 years or so...Urban and regional planning and urban studies scholars as well as public policy practitioners, urbanists of all stripes, and the general public in North America and beyond will certainly find Times Square Remade of outstanding interest to their work. Lynne Sagalyn’s in-depth knowledge of the district’s urban transformations, the evolution of the influential real estate interests, and the most important financial transactions and planning programs shaping the district’s urban environment and its main uses provides plenty of fodder for thought in our postpandemic uncertain and interconnected reality.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Planning Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is no more famous intersection in the world than Times Square, and no intersection has gone through so many highs and lows. The construction of the Times Square Tower, the new home of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003ein the early 1900s not only led to the renaming of what was then called Longacre Square but helped attract the theaters and restaurants (and neon signs) that made it the thriving, brightly lit tourist mecca it became. Decline then set in, making Times Square synonymous with vice, drugs, muggings, and, not to get too technical, sleaze. The cleanup campaign that began in the 1980s may have left some deriding it as the Disneyfication of Times Square, but, face it, would you rather be accosted by a pimp or by a panhandler dressed as Goofy? True New Yorkers still avoid the place unless they work there or wish to see \u003ci\u003eThe Lion King, \u003c\/i\u003ebut in Lynne B. Sagalyn’s smart and elegant analysis of what constitutes a public space successfully reborn by government and private partnership, one can only marvel at what has been wrought. Times Square, like it or not, symbolizes the city, and New York depends on its vitality if it is to remain the city that never sleeps.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAirmail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Lynne Sagalyn, a professor emeritus of real estate at Columbia University’s Business School, has just published a history of the area, T\u003ci\u003eimes Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change\u003c\/i\u003e, that puts the area’s current woes in perspective. Sagalyn has spent over 30 years thinking and writing about Times Square. Her 2001 book, \u003ci\u003eTimes Square Roulette: Remaking the City Ico\u003c\/i\u003en, focused on the ambitious rebuilding of the area that began in the 1960s but wasn’t complete until the early 2000s. In that book, Sagalyn traced the transformation of the district from a seedy lowlife destination into a revitalized entertainment district with massive new office towers and bigger, brighter signs. Her latest book goes much further back, to the neighborhood’s emergence in the 1890s as the city’s new theater district.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Curbed\/New York magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Take a front-row seat to the detailed chronicle of the making, remaking, “ruin,” and revival of New York’s “symbolic soul.” From Times Square’s Gilded Age inception as a highbrow arts destination to its working-class takeover as a carnivalesque playground, then its decline into a destination for pornography and prostitution and the 20-year sanitization campaign that followed, Columbia University professor emerita Lynne Sagalyn doesn’t confine herself to the broad strokes of financial deals or political machinations. She emphasizes the street-level humanity that has persisted at the “crossroads of the world,” throughout the fluctuations in its identity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Architectural Record\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Lively and well-illustrated\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Vital City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Since the area was renamed Times Square in 1904 no other intersection on Earth has been as iconic, famous, and frequented as the crossroads of the world in New York. And no other person has written with such authority and knowledge about the place as Lynne Sagalyn.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kenneth T. Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eEditor-in-Chief, \u003ci\u003eThe Encyclopedia of New York City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sagalyn’s erudition marches off every page, and her ability to show what Times Square has meant in both modern urban culture and New York politics transforms the history of a single neighborhood into a fundamental narrative of space and time.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eSharon Zukin\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eNaked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Lynne Sagalyn brilliantly weaves together the strands of real estate, popular entertainment, economics, and politics that created Times Square, to explain the problems the area has faced down and the challenges it faces today.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eCarl Weisbrod\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eChairman, New York City Planning Commission, and Director, New York City Department of City Planning (2014–17)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This deep look into the century-long, boom-and-bust story of Times Square is not only a study of real estate deals and urban policy but social history— with a whiff of regret for the loss of the district’s once-gritty ambience.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eCathleen McGuigan\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eEditor-in-Chief, \u003ci\u003eArchitectural Record\u003c\/i\u003e (2011–22)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A rare look into the intrigue of local politics and powerful business interests behind the complexity of urban real estate markets, Times Square Remade reads like a thriller that all urbanists need to put on their list.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alicia Glen\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eco-chair, Gateway Commission; founding manager and principal, MSquared; Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development, City of New York (2014–19)\u003c\/b\u003eLynne B. Sagalyn is\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eEarle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor Emerita of Real Estate at Columbia Business School, as well as a real estate professional. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePower at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTimes Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press), and \u003ci\u003eDowntown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities \u003c\/i\u003e(coauthor, MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301380149477,"sku":"NP9780262048545","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262048545.jpg?v=1767742664","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/times-square-remade-isbn-9780262048545","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}