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Index

Abrams, Charles

Ad hoc

Adaptations

Age of Mass Transit

Agglomeration

Agriculture

sustainable

urban

AIA Guide to New York
(White and Willensky)

Alioto, Joseph

Allen, Woody

Alphabet City

Alternatives

Ameliorations

Association of Neighborhood Housing Developers

Astor Hotel

Astoria

Atlantic Arts Building

Atlantic Center

Atlantic Terminal

Atlantic Yards

blight and

fighting

Jacobs and

Authentic urban process

Automobile capacity

Automobile industry

Automobiles

tide against

Avery, Milton

Back to City Conference

Back-to-the-City Movement

Bagli, Charles V.

Balanced transportation system

Baltimore

highways for

Banana Kelly

Barwick, Kent

Battery Park

Battery Park City

Bautista, Eddie

Bay Ridge, dislocation impacts of

Beame, Abraham

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration

Bel Geddes, Norman

Benepe, Barry

Benstock, Marcy

Berman, Marshall

Bicycles

“Big Apple” campaign

Big box retail

Big Clog

Big Dig

Big projects

Bleecker Street

Blight

Blockbusting

Bloomberg, Michael

affordable housing and

on buildings/energy consumption

Jacobs letter to

Third Water Tunnel and

transit and

Tweed Courthouse and

Board of Education

Board of Estimate

Bobst Library (NYU)

Bollinger, Lee 290

Boston

Big Dig and

transit in

Boulevards

Brandes, Larry

Brandes, Paula

Brennan, Peter

Breslin, Jimmy

Breuer, Marcel

Broadway

Brokaw Mansions

Bronx

burning of

gardens in

industry in

water-filtration plant in

Yankee Stadium and

Bronx River

Bronx River Alliance

Bronx River Greenway

Brooklyn

clearance and

density of

gardens in

parks in

problems in

restoration and

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Dodgers

Brooklyn Food Conference

Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn Queens Expressway

Brownmiller, Susan

Brownstone Movement

Brownstones

Buckley, James

Buffalo

Building codes

Bunshaft, Gordon

Burden, Carter

Burke, Deborah

Butzel, Albert

Byron, Joan

Campbell, Clive (DJ Kool Herc)

Canal Street

Car-dependency

Carey, Hugh

Carnegie Hall

Caro, Robert

Cross Bronx Expressway and

on deferred maintenance

on Interstate Highway System

on Moses

urban development and

on World’s Fair/automobile industry

Carson, Rachel

Carter, Jimmy

Carter, Majora

Casinos

Cast Iron

Catalysts

Center for an Urban Future

Central Park

Moses and

Central Park West

Central Savings Bank

Change

bottom-up

cataclysmic

inappropriate

incremental

positive

preservation and

small steps for

urban

Changing the subject

Charney, Jordan

Chicago

Childs, David

Chinatown

Chrysler Building

Church of the Most Holy Crucifix

Churchill, Winston

Cincotta, Gale

Citi Field

CitiCorp

Cities Back from the Edge
(Gratz)

Citizen activists

Citizen-based efforts

City Hall

fighting

preservation and

West Side and

City Planning Commission

Civic protest movements

Clearance

Moses and

Co-op City

Coliseum

Coliseum Square

Columbia University, expansion of

Common Ground

Community

Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)

Community Service Society

Complexity

Conservation effort

Construction workers

Convention centers

Cook, Fred J.

Cooper Square Committee

Corner store

Cosell, Howard

Cost-benefit ratio

Cradle of immigration

Creative class

Creative enterprises

Crime

personal encounter with

Cross Bronx Expressway

Culture

cummings, e. e.

Cuomo, Mario

Damrosch Park

Davidoff, Paul

Davies, J. Clarence

De Maria, Walter

Dean Street

loft co-ops

Death and Life of Great American Cities, The
(Jacobs)

Death-threat syndrome

DeBruhl, Paul

Demolition

energy lost from

Moses and

opposition to

projects

Densifications

Density

economic

efficiency of

Jacobs and

rebuilding

DeRienzo, Harry

DeSapio, Carmine

Designed in New York/Made in New York
(report)

Deskey, Donald

Detroit

highways for

Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn

Development

commercial

economic

high-rise

land

opposing

promoting

residential

suburban

transportation and

Development policies, postwar

Dewey, Thomas E.

Dharavi

Dinkins, David

Dislocation

Displacement

Diversity

Donovan, Shawn

Downey, Mort

Dreiser, Theodore

Dreyfuss, Henry

Drugs

Duke Mansion

DUMBO

Dwyer, Jim

Dylan, Bob

East Harlem Renegades

East River Savings Bank

East Side

East Village

East-West Expressway

Ebbets Field

Ebstein, John

Echanove, Matias

Economic change

Economic development

Economic Development Administration

Economic Development Corporation

Economic growth

Jacobs and

renewable

Economic issues

Economy

breadth/diversity of

dynamic

environment and

financial

green

industrial

local

national

urban

white-collar

Economy of Cities, The
(Jacobs)

Economy of Nature, The
(Jacobs)

Edgar Allan Poe House

Efficiency, false god of

Efficiency of scale

Eighth Street

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Eisner, Lester

Eldridge Street Project

Eldridge Street Synagogue

Elie, Lolis

Embarcadero Freeway

Emergency Commission on Housing

Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank

Eminent domain

Empire State Building

Empire State Development Corporation

Energy efficient

Entertainment complexes

Environmental impact

Environmental issues

Jacobs and

Environmental justice

Environmentalists

Ephron, Nora

Epstein, Jason

Erasmus High School

Erosion of the city

Evans, Walker

Expertise

technical

Factory buildings

Fairway

Farmers’ markets

Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics

Federal funding

Federal Highway Act (1956)

Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency

Federal preservation tax credits

Felt, James

Feuer, Alan

Field Guide to Old House Styles
(pamphlet)

Fifth Avenue

mansions on

Fifty-ninth Street

Fifty-ninth Street Bridge

Filler, Martin

Fire, insurance, and real estate sector (FIRE)

Fiscal crisis

Fishman, Robert

Fitch, Robert

Flatbush

Flatbush Town Hall

Flushing Meadow Park

Flushing Town Hall

Food landscape

Ford, Gerald R.

Ford, Henry

Ford Foundation, Title I and

Ford Motor Company, Jacobs on

Forest City Ratner

Forest Hills

Forty-second Street

Four Seasons Restaurant

Friedman, Adam

Friedman, Thomas L.

Friends of Cast Iron

Friends of the Earth

Frost, Robert

Fullilove, Mindy Thompson

Gandee, Charles

Gangs

Gansvoort Historic District