Title Money jungle : imagining the new Times Square / Benjamin Chesluk ; photographs by Maggie Hopp.

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-216) and index.
Contents	Brilliant corners -- Magnificent spectacle -- The new spaces of Times Square -- The midtown community court -- Times Square Ink -- "Visible signs of a city out of control" -- "It doesn't exist, but they're selling it" -- The meanings of Times Square -- Notes -- Index.
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Summary	Benjamin Chesluk weaves together surprising stories of everyday life in and around the Times Square redevelopment, tracing the connections between people from every level of this grand project in social and spatial engineering: the developers, architects, and designers responsible for reshaping the urban public spaces of Times Square and Forty-second Street; the experimental Midtown Community Court and its Times Square Ink. job-training program for misdemeanor criminals; encounters between NYPD officers and residents of Hells Kitchen; and angry confrontations between city planners and neighbo.
Subject	Times Square (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	City planning -- Political aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Urban renewal -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
	Power (Social sciences)
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
	City planning -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00862241
	Power (Social sciences) (OCoLC)fst01074219
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Urban renewal. (OCoLC)fst01162536
	New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
	New York (State) -- New York -- Times Square. (OCoLC)fst01316237
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Chesluk, Benjamin Jacob. Money jungle. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008 9780813541792 0813541794 (DLC) 2007000030 (OCoLC)79256692
Standard No.	9786611224219
ISBN	9780813543819 (electronic bk.)
	0813543819 (electronic bk.)

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