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8. Nurturing and Supporting a Civil Society

Author : Richard Heinberg

Published in: What Makes a Great City

Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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Footnotes
1
Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia, Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action for Long-Term Change (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2015).
 
2
Neville Braybrooke, London Green (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959), 49.
 
3
Ibid., 54–55.
 
4
Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert, eds., The London Encylopaedia (London: Macmillan London Limited, 1993), 414, 660–664.
 
5
Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t, 3rd ed. (New York, McGraw-Hill Education, 2013), 220–228.
 
6
Michael Kimmelman, “In Istanbul’s Heart, Leader’s Obsession, Perhaps Achilles’ Heel,” New York Times, June 7, 2013.
 
7
City of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Bicycle Account 2012 (in Danish), 2013.
 
8
Jan Gehl, Lars Gemzoe, Sia Kirknaes, and Britt Sondergaard, New City Life (Copenhagen: The Danish Architectural Press, 2006), 24.
 
9
City of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Bicycle Account 2010 (in Danish), 2011.
 
11
Lesley Bain, Barbara Gray, and Dave Rodgers, Living Streets: Strategies for Crafting Public Space (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2012), 99.
 
12
W. Bruce Lincoln, Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia (New York, Basic Books, 2002), 113–114.
 
13
Maria Teresa, City Squares of the World (Verscelli, Italy: White Star Publishers, 2000), 122.
 
14
Ibid., 190–191.
 
15
Ibid., 248.
 
16
Michael Webb, The City Square: A Historical Evolution (New York: The Whitney Library of Design, 1990), 168.
 
17
Caroline Brooke, Moscow: A Cultural History (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006), 33–58.
 
18
Ibid., 33.
 
20
David Freeland, Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure (New York: New York University Press, 2009), 70–127.
 
21
Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 1149.
 
22
Ric Burns and James Sanders, New York: An Illustrated History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), 347–351.
 
23
David Freeland, Automats, 166.
 
24
Garvin, The American City, 511–513.
 
25
Lynne B. Sagalyn, Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001).
 
26
Times Square Alliance, Twenty Years: Twenty Principles (New York: Times Square Alliance, 2013), 6. (http://​www.​timessquarenyc.​org/​)
 
27
Interview with Tim Tompkins, president, Times Square Alliance, March 26, 2014.
 
28
Samuel I. Schwartz with William Rosen, Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars (New York: Public Affairs, 2015), 138, 166.
 
29
Andrew Tangel and Josh Dawsey, “At Times Square, Fewer Traffic Injuries,” Wall Street Journal, New York, August 25, 2015.
 
30
Times Square Alliance, personal communication. (http://​www.​timessquarenyc.​org/​)
 
31
Ibid.
 
32
Ibid.
 
33
Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, “Policing ‘Awful but Lawful’ Times Square Panhandling,” Wall Street Journal, New York, September 5–6, 2015, p. A11.
 
Metadata
Title
Nurturing and Supporting a Civil Society
Author
Richard Heinberg
Copyright Year
2016
Publisher
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Book
What Makes a Great City

Print ISBN: 978-1-61091-824-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-61091-759-9

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-759-9_8