Bryant Park

1. Learning from the Mistakes of Bryant Park
2. More Bryant Park Midcourse Corrections

Jamaica

1. Changes In Jamaica
2. Jamaica Update – Not According to Plan
3. Real Community Leadership
4. Jamaica Rising

Operations

1. Putting Out in Public Space
2. People Like/Love Gras
3.  and yes I said yes I will Yes
4. There is No Free Lunch (or Breakfast)

Programming

1. The Fog of Creative Placemaking
2. Say It With Flowers
3. Island Magic

Streets and Sidewalks

1. EATING ON THE PAVEMENT
2. When the Signs Suck
3. Vending: The Platonic Form
4. Selling on the Sidewalk
5. Building Blank Walls
6. Improving Suburban Downtowns Larchmont
7. Pissing On Sidewalks
8. Make American Downtowns Great Again
9. Delivering Compassion to the Homeless
10. The Real Story of Sleepy Hollow
11. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
12. A Memo from Brooklyn to Queens: Re: Amazon, HQ2
13. The Way We Live Now Post Covid
14. Winter is Coming
15. NEWSRACKS ARE ANCIENT HISTORY
16. THE SAD SAGA OF THE GARBAGE CAN AND 311 – And 311 Garbage In – Garbage Out

Economic Development

1. What Works
2. Buying the Dogs
3. “Is E.D. Really a Problem” From the American Downtown Revitalization Review
4. What is to be Done — What’s Next in Downtown Revitalization
5. THE CASEY JONES CONUNDRUM

BIDs

1. WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE…
2. In Defense of BIDs
3. Going Beyond Safe and Clean

Telecommunications Policy

1. EXPANDING THE REACH OF THE INTERNET IN NEW YORK CITY
2. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CABLE EMPIRE
3. ONLINE PORN, GAMBLING AND 5G
4. THE BEST LAID PLANS FOR FREE WI-FI (Part 1 of 3)
5. THE BEST LAID PLANS FOR FREE WI-FI (Part 2 of 3)
6. THE BEST LAID PLANS FOR FREE WI-FI (Part 3 of 3)

Theory

1. The Impossible Takes a Little While — Billie Holiday*
2. Gentrification and its Discontents
3. Race, Class, Equality and Public Space
4. MAKE NO GRAND PLANS
5. Engaging the “Deplorables”
6. Housing Market Myths and Truths
7. The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is … What Exactly?
8. William H. (“Holly”) Whyte Resource Page
9. What’s Planning Got to Do With It?
10. Why Is This So Difficult?
11. IMPROVING THE PUBLIC REALM

Other Places

1. Bass Ackwards Los Angeles
2. The View from Vancouver
3. When will we ever learn? Cleveland
4. Photos from Cleveland’s Public Square
5. Getting It Right Cincinnati
6. Snowed by Buffalo
7. The Fountains of Andalusia
8. The Solstice, Christmas, York and Place
9. Advent, Le Chemin de St. Jacques, Ste. Foy, Conques and the Essentialness of Place
10. Placemaking as Policy: Gloversville, New York: A Laboratory for the community impact of public space revitalization
11. Sharon Springs, New York – A Great Place: A Long Hard Pull
12. Why Cleveland should become “Amazon City!”Why Cleveland should become “Amazon City!”
13. Meet Me In St. Louis
14. What’s The Matter With Nebraska?
15. THE RIGHT STUFF: SARATOGA SPRINGS
16. ULI Sleepy Hollow Report 
17. ROCKIN’ THE CANADIAN ROCKIES Calgary
18. CHANGES ALONG THE MOHAWK Utica
19. An Excellent Point Pittsburgh
20. City of Light City of Magic Cleveland
21. The Best of Times San Francisco
22. ABOVE THE FRUITED PLAIN; KANSAS CITY
23. THAT’S ALL RIGHT, YOU CAN HAVE HIM – LOS ANGELES
24. WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH TARN-ET-GARONNE?
25. IMPRESSIONS OF IOWA
26. LEARN FROM THE BEST; CINCINNATI
27. THE COURSE OF EMPIRE – ROCHESTER
28. THE COURSE OF EMPIRE III/DESOLATION – SYRACUSE
29. THE COURSE OF EMPIRE/DESTRUCTION – II – AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK
30. THE COURSE OF EMPIRE/CONSUMMATION IV (of IV), SCHENECTADY AND TROY

Book Reviews

1. He Happens to Like New York* Justin Davidson, The Magnetic City
2. The Triumph of The Creative Class Richard Florida, The New Urban Crisis
3. TAKING SUBURBIA SERIOUSLY Joel Kotkin, The Human City
4. The Success of “Broken Windows” Rightly Understood Uneasy Peace, Patrick Sharkey
5. The Prophet of Micropolis Vince Desantis, Toward Civic Integrity: Re-establishing the Micropolis
6. Landing in Flyover Country James and Deborah Fallows, Our Towns
7. Who Cleans The Park, byby John Krinsky, Maud Simonet
8. American Urbanist by Richard Rein
9. THE REST IS HISTORY“New York, New York, New York; Four Decades of Succuss, Excess, and Transformation” Thomas Dyja (Simon & Schuster, 2021)

Reviews of Learning from Bryant Park

1. From “The New Criterion” — A pleasant place
2. A new review from BOOK BIT for WTBF-AM/FM in Troy, Alabama by the delightful “Doc” Kirby
3. How a Manhattan park pioneered Main Street placemaking | CNU
4. “Planning Magazine:” A Rave Review for “Learning from Bryant Park”
5. The Secret Recipe for Dynamite Urban Parks | The American Conservative
6. The Metropole
7. City Journal

Interviews and Articles about Learning from Bryant Park

1. Downtowns and Public Spaces: What Works in Revitalizing Them?
2. How FERMOB Sparked a Revolution in Public Space
3. The Frankie Boyer Show
4. The Grok Interview
5. The New Face of Public Space
6. BYU Radio Interview Link
7. How Bryant Park’s Iconic Chairs Revolutionized Public Spaces
8. Public spaces in an age of social distancing: How to rethink parks after coronavirus