Money Jungle: Imagining the New Times Square

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix About the Photographs xi CHAPTER ONE Brilliant Corners: The Redevelopment of Times Square 1 CHAPTER TWO Magnificent Spectacle: Real Estate, Theater, Advertising, and the History of Times Square 23 CHAPTER THREE The New Spaces of Times Square: Commerce, Social Control, and the Built Environment 48 CHAPTER FOUR The Midtown Community Court: Intimacy and Power in an Experimental Courtroom 81 R4305.indb vi R4305.indb vi 6/11/07 7:57:29 AM 6/11/07 7:57:29 AM CHAPTER FIVE Times Square Ink.: Redevelopment of the Self 96 CHAPTER SIX “Visible Signs of a City Out of Control”: Images of Order and Disorder in Police-Community Dialogue 134 CHAPTER SEVEN “It Doesn’t Exist, But They’re Selling It”: The Debates over “Air Rights” 165 CHAPTER EIGHT Conclusion: The Meanings of Times Square 188 Notes 197 Index 217 R4305.indb vii R4305.indb vii 6/11/07 7:57:29 AM 6/11/07 7:57:29 AM R4305.indb viii R4305.indb viii 6/11/07 7:57:29 AM 6/11/07 7:57:29 AM ...