Street Value

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ISBN: 9781568988979
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 208 pages
4,5 x 7 cm
June 2010
€15,25 (excl. VAT)

Street Value

Shopping, Planning, and Politics at Fulton Mall

Rosten Woo, Meredith TenHoor, Damon Rich

Series: Inventory Books

Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Street is one of the most exhilarating public spaces in New York City. A colossus of commerce, it welcomes over 100,000 shoppers daily and ranks among one of the most profitable commercial real estates in the country. Yet, despite its prominent role in urban culture and its financial success, it is rarely celebrated in New York. Street Value challenges the reader to creatively rethink the planning and urban design of Fulton Street and serves as a guide to the street’s history and place in the commercial culture of Brooklyn. Featuring two essays and weaving together original commentary with archival and contemporary images, this book analyzes the role of the shopping district in generating dialogue about race, class and culture through urban design. Also featuring interviews with key planners, developers, city officials, historians and activists from the 1960s to the present,