URPL-GP 2415 Public Policy and Planning in New

York CityFall 2018

Instructor Information Professor Mitchell L. Moss Email: moss.mitchell@gmail.com Office Address: The Puck Building, Room 2318 Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00–5:00 p.m. or by appointment.

Course Information Class Meeting Times: Wednesday 4:55–6:35 p.m. Class Location: 194 Mercer Street, Room 306

Course DescriptionThis course explores the complex ecosystem of public officials, civic organizations, advocates, and community groups involved in the processes by which New York City provides vital public goods and services. The public sector in New York City shapes the pattern of physical and economic development in the city: the buildings, parks, public spaces, streets, sidewalks, bridges, transit systems and tunnels which people depend on. The course will examine the structure of municipal government, the financing of basic public services and the way in which public policies influence urban activity. The course will also analyze the impact of immigration on the city’s economic life, neighborhoods, and religious and cultural institutions. During the semester, we will examine the roles of the mayor and other elected officials, as well as the ways in which state and regional governments work (or fail to work) together in providing services, planning development projects and setting policy. In doing so, we’ll analyze challenges in public safety, access to mass transit, economic development, education and environmental quality.

Course and Learning Objectives

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Over this course, you will:1. Define the economic, political, technological and demographic forces that influence New

York City’s approach to urban policy and planning2. Identify the institutions and processes that carry a planning project from its initial

proposal through its completed implementation 3. Recognize planning’s potential as a means to modify the distribution of resources across

the city’s residents, and reduce inequities in access to opportunity, as well to reinforce or diminish participation at the local level

4. Apply this knowledge to think critically about public policy debates (e.g. school governance, disaster preparedness, congestion pricing, etc.) and generate your own evaluations of proposed solutions

5. Demonstrate your command of lecture concepts through well-structured and engaging writing reinforced by data charts, maps and other visuals, and through meaningful contributions to class discussions

Learning Assessment Table

Graded Assignment Course Objective CoveredClass Participation #5Midterm #2, #3, #4Final Exam #2, #3, #4Research Paper #2, #3, #4, #5

Required ReadingsStudents will be expected to have read through the required readings assigned for a given week prior to lecture. While all other required readings will be accessible online (either via NYU Classes or the provided URL), students must rent or purchase the following two texts (both available at the NYU Bookstore):

Caro, R. (1974). The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York. New York, NY: Knopf.

Hamill, P. (2004). Downtown: My Manhattan. New York, NY: Little, Brown.Immediately below each week’s required reading list is a set of recommended readings that I encourage you to read, but doing so is optional. For those students looking for additional resources on NYC that beyond the scope of this course, I’ve included a longer list of recommendations at the end of this syllabus.

Web ResourcesThe following are news publications, magazines, journals, blogs, and other providers of content focused on New York City and/or New York State politics, policy (budget, education, economic, housing and transportation, to name a few), or (history of) capital planning.

Times Union | Capitol Confidential : blog.timesunion.com/capitol Center for an Urban Future : nycfuture.org

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Chalkbeat | New York : chalkbeat.org/ny Citizens Budget Commission : cbcny.org City & State New York : cityandstateny.com Curbed : curbed.com New York | Daily Intelligencer : nymag.com/daily/intelligencer Daily Politics (NY Daily News blog): http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ Department of City Planning: nyc.gov/planning Empire Center for Public Policy : empirecenter.org Fiscal Policy Institute : fiscalpolicy.org Gotham Gazette : gothamgazette.com Manhattan Institute for Policy Research : manhattan-institute.org Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget : www1.nyc.gov/site/omb/index.page Museum of the City of New York | The Greatest Grid : thegreatestgrid.mcny.org New York Post: nypost.com Next City : nextcity.org Independent Budget Office of the City of New York : ibo.nyc.ny.us Daily News | Big Town, Big Time: An Amazing History of NYC :

interactive.nydailynews.com/project/archive/amazing-history-nyc NYU Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy : furmancenter.org NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management :

wagner.nyu.edu/rudincenter Office of the New York State Comptroller : osc.state.ny.us Observer | Politics : observer.com/politics Politico : politico.com The Center for New York City Affairs at The New School : centernyc.org The New York Times | N.Y.: nytimes.com/section/nyregion

NYU ClassesStudents will use NYU Classes in this course to:

View the most updated version of the course syllabus Read course announcements Access any assigned readings for which a URL has not been provided on the syllabus Submit assignments

Academic IntegrityAcademic integrity is a vital component of Wagner and NYU. All students enrolled in this class are required to read and abide by Wagner’s Academic Code. All Wagner students have already read and signed the Wagner Academic Oath. Plagiarism of any form will not be tolerated and students in this class are expected to report violations to me. If any student in this class is unsure about what is expected of you and how to abide by the academic code, you should consult with me.

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Henry and Lucy Moses Center for Students with Disabilities at NYUAcademic accommodations are available for students with disabilities. Please visit the Moses Center for Students with Disabilities (CSD) website and click on the Reasonable Accommodations and How to Register tab or call or email CSD at (212-998-4980 or mosescsd@nyu.edu) for information. Students who are requesting academic accommodations are strongly advised to reach out to the Moses Center as early as possible in the semester for assistance.

NYU’s Calendar Policy on Religious HolidaysNYU’s Calendar Policy on Religious Holidays states that members of any religious group may, without penalty, absent themselves from classes when required in compliance with their religious obligations. Please notify me in advance of religious holidays that might coincide with exams to schedule mutually acceptable alternatives.

Assessment Assignments and Evaluation

Your final grade for this course will be calculated as follows:

Class Participation: 10%Your grade will reflect your level of engagement in class discussions and the quality of your contributions.

Midterm Exam: 25%These will be take-home assignments in which you will compose short answer responses to a set of prompts relating to the course topics covered insofar. Formulate your answers using all relevant course materials, write with brevity and purpose, and be sure to properly cite all your sources. I will post more detailed instructions in regards to content, format, and submission for these written assignments on NYU Classes further into the semester.

Final Exam: 25%These will be take-home assignments in which you will compose short answer responses to a set of prompts relating to the course topics covered insofar. Formulate your answers using all relevant course materials, write with brevity and purpose, and be sure to properly cite all your sources. I will post more detailed instructions in regards to content, format, and submission for these written assignments on NYU Classes further into the semester.

Research Paper: 40%

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Due at the end of the semester, this will be a longer essay for which you will select a development project (whether proposed, ongoing, or completed) in New York City. After describing the project in terms purpose, scope, and costs, you will: profile the local neighborhood; explain the original issue that the project intended to solve; identify the project’s principal advocates, its main opponents, and conflicts arising between the two groups, as well as how they were solved (if at all); summarize the processes by which the project sought to include members of the local community in the planning process and to address issues of environmental sustainability; and offer your own predictions as to any long-term impacts that the project or related policy change might have. Through this assignment, you will:

build on your general knowledge of planning theory and practice; gain more specialized expertise on planning processes in your chosen project’s domain;

and develop your technical skills; polishing your writing, citing sources, locating and

interpreting data sets, presenting your findings in easily digestible ways, integrating charts, maps, and visuals into your presentation, etc.

I will post more detailed instructions in regards to content, format, and submission for these written assignments on NYU Classes further into the semester.

Overview of the Semester Week 1

o Date: Sept. 5o Topic: How New York Differs from Other Cities: Demographic and Economic

Trends and ‘NYC Values’ Week 2

o Date: Sept. 12o Topic: Structure of Municipal Government: The City Charter, the Mayor, and the

City Council Week 3

o Date: Sept. 19o Topic: How a Mayor Makes a Difference

Week 4o Date: Sept. 26o Topic: New York City vs. New York State: The MTA and the Port Authority of NY

& NJ Week 5

o Date: Oct. 3o Topic: Budget and Finances: How NYC Raises and Spends Money

Week 6o Date: Oct. 10o Topic: Elections, Political Participation and Voting

Week 7o Date: Oct. 17

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o Topic: Planning, Land Use, Preservation, and Development Week 8

o Date: Oct. 24o Topic: September 11th, Redevelopment of Lower Manhattan, and the World

Trade Center Site Week 9

o Date: Oct. 31o Topic: Politics of Public Safetyo Deliverable: Submit Midterm Exam to NYU Classes by 4:55 p.m.

Week 10o Date: Nov. 7o Topic: Politics of Mobility: Uber, Taxis, and Congestion Pricing

Week 11o Date: Nov. 14o Topic: School Reform and Education Politics

Thanksgiving Week – No Classo Date: Nov. 21

Week 12o Date: Nov. 28o Topic: Economic Development Case Studies

Week 13o Date: Dec. 5o Topic: The Role of the Media in Policymaking

Week 14o Date: Dec. 12o Topic: Planning for the Future

Deliverableo Date: Dec. 14

Submit Final Exam to NYU Classes by 5 p.m.o Date: Dec. 20

Submit Research Paper to NYU Classes by 5 p.m.

Detailed Course Overview

WEEK 1: How New York Differs from Other Cities: Demographic and Economic Trends and ‘NYC Values’As you read, consider how the text informs discussion on the following questions:

New York differs from other U.S. cities for its population size, density and its diversity of industries and inhabitants. New York’s location, historic legacy as a port, strong appetite public services, capacity and willingness to tax itself, and relationship to the surrounding region all reinforce its distinctiveness among major metropolitan regions.

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o How has NYC’s substantial immigrant population influenced the city in terms of the factors listed above (e.g., economic development, global trade, political ideology)?

o Alternatively, how have economic, political, geographic, and cultural factors influenced the flows of new immigrants to NYC?

Glaeser (2009) maintains that NYC’s most important competitive advantage isn’t limited to any one broad domain of urban life (i.e., that advantage concerns not just economic factors, nor only social ones, nor is merely political, etc.). Instead, he posits, the city’s strong ability to adapt—when, say, new technological innovations shake up the existing economic order—is its greatest asset of all.

o How has NYC been a “reinventive city”?o What trends or factors do you anticipate will necessitate NYC to reinvent itself in

the future?

Required: Glaeser, E. L. (2009). The reinventive city. City Journal, (Special Issue). Retrieved from

https://www.city-journal.org/html/reinventive-city-13182.html Hamill, P. (2004). Downtown: My Manhattan. New York, NY: Little, Brown.

o Read pp. 1–180. Lobo, A. P., & Salvo, J. J. (2013). The newest New Yorkers: Characteristics of the city’s

foreign-born popoulation (No. NYC DCP #13-10). New York, NY: Department of City Planning. Retrieved from http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/nny2013/nny_2013.pdf

Robbins, L. (2018, August 14). How Trump’s Plan for Immigrants on Welfare Could Hurt a Million New Yorkers. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/nyregion/welfare-immigrants-trump-public-charge-rule.html

Samuels, N. (2017). New York City: Diverse, Vibrant Economy Drives Growth Needed to Keep Pace with Fixed Costs. New York, NY: Moody’s Investor Services. Available on NYU Classes.

White, E. B. (1988). Here is New York. New York, NY: Little Bookroom. Available on NYU Classes.

Recommended: Davidson, J. (2017). Magnetic city: A walking companion to New York. New York, NY:

Spiegel & Grau. Retrieved from https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9454325o Read introduction (pp. xi–xiv).

Frey, W. H. (2014). Diversity explosion: How new racial demographics are remaking America. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. Retrieved from http://muse.jhu.edu/book/35812

o Read chapters 1, 8, and 9 (pp. 1–20, 149–189).

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Glazer, N., & Moynihan, D. P. (1963). Beyond the melting pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press & Harvard University Press. Retrieved from http://archive.org/details/beyondmeltingpot1963glaz

o Read introduction (pp. 1–23). Salvo, J. J., Lobo, A. P., & Maurer, E. (2013). New York City population projections by

age/sex & borough, 2010–2040. New York, NY: Department of City Planning. Retrieved from https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/projections_report_2010_2040.pdf

Smith, N. (2017, June 16). Immigrants don’t steal from Americans’ paychecks. Bloomberg. Retrieved from https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-16/immigrants-don-t-steal-from-americans-paychecks

WEEK 2: Structure of Municipal Government: The City Charter, the Mayor and the City Council

Why does New York City have a charter? Why did NYC revise its charter in 1989? What are the sources of the mayor’s power as defined by the charter? What are the responsibilities of the city council, comptroller, and public advocate?

Required: Perales, C., Godsil, R., Scissura, C., & Gewolb, M. (2018). 2018 Preliminary Staff

Report. New York, NY: Charter Revision Commission. Retrieved from https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/charter/downloads/pdf/CRC-Report-July-2018-DRAFT.pdf

Berg, B. (2007). New York City politics: Governing Gotham. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Available at ProQuest Ebook Central: https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.proxy.library.nyu.edu/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=340807

o Read chapters 3, 7, and 8 (pp. 58–87, 180–243). Freedlander, D. (2018, June 14). Not that long ago, New York City really was run from a

smoke-filled backroom. New York. Retrieved June 14, 2018, from http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/when-new-york-city-really-was-run-from-a-smoke-filled-room.html

Recommended: Barry, F. S. (2009). The scandal of reform: The grand failures of New York’s political

crusaders and the death of nonpartisanship. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Available at ProQuest Ebook Central: https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.proxy.library.nyu.edu/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=997521

o Read chapters 10 and 11 (pp. 142–182).   Fine, E., & Caras, J. (2013). Twenty-five years of the council-mayor governance of New

York City: A history of the council's powers, the separation of powers, and issues for

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future resolution. New York Law School Law Review, 58, 119-136. Available at: http://www.nylslawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2013/10/Fine-and-Caras.pdf

Schwarz Jr., F. A., & Lane, E. (1998). The policy and politics of charter making: The story of New York City’s 1989 Charter. New York Law School Law Review, 42, 723–-1015. Retrieved from https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1820&context=faculty_scholarship

o Read pp. 743-–750, 809-–830, and 853-–870. Surico, J. (2015, August 14). Does Staten Island get its fair share? Gotham Gazette.

Retrieved from http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5849-does-staten-island-get-its-fairshare

WEEK 3: How a Mayor Makes a Difference How is New York City’s mayoral office different from those in other cities? Has a “strong mayor” form of municipal government been advantageous for NYC?

Required:

Assessing the Lindsay Years. (2001). In V. J. Cannato, The ungovernable city: John Lindsay and his struggle to save New York (pp. 525–544). New York, NY: Basic. Available on NYU Classes.

Corbett, G. (2007). Control. In R. Polner (Ed.), America’s mayor, America’s president?: The strange career of Rudy Giuliani. New York, NY: Soft Skull Press. Available on NYU Classes.

Goldman, H. (2016, February 5). De Blasio’s week marred by political strains, policy setbacks. Bloomberg.com. Retrieved from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-05/de-blasio-s-week-marred-by-political-strains-policy-setbacks

Golway, T. (2017, August 11). Not a pothole in sight: De Blasio’s road to a second term. Politico. Retrieved from https://subscriber.politicopro.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2017/08/11/not-a-pothole-in-sight-de-blasios-road-to-a-second-term-113881

Mahler, J. (2006). Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning: 1977, baseball, politics, and the battle for the soul of a city. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Available on NYU Classes.

o Read chapter 35–40 (pp. 206–234). McNickle, C. (2017). Bloomberg: A billionaire’s ambition. New York, NY: Skyhorse.

Available on NYU Classes.o Read chapters 6, “The Entrepreneurial City,” and 7, “Healthy Economy, Healthy

City.” Moss, M. L. (2013, October 1). A great mayor says goodbye. Observer. Retrieved from

http://observer.com/2013/10/a-great-mayor-says-goodbye/

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Recommended: Goldman, H. (2016, June 8). De Blasio, New York City Council agree on $82.1 billion

budget. Bloomberg.com. Retrieved from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-08/de-blasio-new-york-city-council-agree-on-82-1-billion-budget

Hamill, P. (2005). Personality with a point. In M. Goodwin (Ed.), New York comes back: The mayoralty of Edward I. Koch (pp. 37–41). New York, NY: Powerhouse. Available on NYU Classes.

Hers to Lose . (2013). [Video file]. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000002461740/hers-to-lose.html

Williams, M. B. (2014). City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York. W. W. Norton & Company. Available on NYU Classes.

o Read chapter 5, “The New Deal’s Lost Legacy” (pp. 175–211).

WEEK 4: New York City vs. New York State: The MTA and the Port Authority of NY & NJ

What is a public authority? How did Robert Moses use public authorities to finance his projects? What is the mission of the Port Authority of NY and NJ and how is it governed? How do Port Authority transportation facilities influence NYC?

Required: Barron, S. (2016). The Port Authority leviathan. City Journal, (Winter). Retrieved from

https://www.city-journal.org/html/port-authority-leviathan-14172.html Branches of government in New York State . (2009, March 25). Retrieved from

https://www.nysenate.gov/branches-government-new-york-state Caro, R. A. (1974). The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York. New

York, NY: Knopf.o Read chapters 20–44 (pp. 615–1016).

Dearstyne, B. (2015, August 13). The mayor and the governor: A history of tension and cooperation. Gotham Gazette. Retrieved from http://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/130-opinion/5846-the-mayor-and-the-governor-a-history-of-tension-and-cooperation

McKinley, J. (2018, July 26). Why can’t New York City govern its own affairs? The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/nyregion/nyc-home-rule-state-laws.html

Moss, M. L. (1988). New York vs. New Jersey: A new perspective. Portfolio, 1(2). Retrieved from http://archive.li/VSOWW

Moss, M. L., & O’Neill, H. (2014). A Port Authority that works. New York, NY: NYU Rudin Center. Retrieved from https://wagner.nyu.edu/files/rudincenter/2014/04/PortAuthorityFINAL_Web.pdf

Nahmias, L. (2016, February 23). Cuomo says fight between state and city over homelessness is natural. Politico. Retrieved from

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https://subscriber.politicopro.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2016/02/cuomo-says-fight-between-state-and-city-over-homelessness-is-natural-031516

Recommended: Creelan, J. M., & Moulton, L. M. (2004). The New York State legislative process: An

evaluation and blueprint for reform. New York, NY: Brennan Center for Justice. Retrieved from http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/d/albanyreform_finalreport.pdf

o Read the executive summary (pp. vii–xiv) Dague, J. (2015). Righting the ship: A course toward fiscal sustainability for the region’s

maritime ports. New York, NY: Citizens Budget Commission. Retrieved from https://cbcny.org/sites/default/files/REPORT_PORTCOMMERCE_01132014.pdf

DiNapoli, T. P. (2014). Public authorities by the numbers. Albany, NY: Office of the State Comptroller. Retrieved from http://osc.state.ny.us/reports/pubauth/PA_by_the_numbers_12_2014.pdf

Doig, J. W. (2001). Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial vision and political power at the Port of New York Authority. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Available on NYU Classes.

o Read epilogue, “Triumphs and travails of an aging empire” (pp. 373–402). Henderson, K. M. (2006). Other governments: The public authorities. In R. F. Pecorella

& J. M. Stonecash (Eds.), Governing New York State (5th ed., pp. 225–241). Albany: State University of New York Press. Retrieved from http://muse.jhu.edu/book/5034

WEEK 5: Budget and Finances: How NYC Raises and Spends Money How does NYC raise its revenue? How are city spending priorities determined? In what ways do community organization and advocacy groups influence the city

budget?

Required: Alexander, M. (2018, July 10). The cost of a growing city workforce. Retrieved from

https://cbcny.org/research/cost-growing-city-workforce#.W0U-opbliZE.gmail De Blasio, B., & Fuleihan, D. (2016). The City of New York Preliminary Budget Fiscal

Year 2017: Financial Plan Summary. New York, NY: Office of Management and Budget. Retrieved from http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/omb/downloads/pdf/sum1_16.pdf

Max, B. (2018, August 17). What’s The [Data] Point? $89.16 billion [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from http://www.gothamgazette.com/city/7872-what-s-the-data-point-89-16-billion

New York City Independent Budget Office. (2013). Understanding New York City’s budget: A guide. New York, NY: Author. Retrieved from http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/understandingthebudget.pdf

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Parrott, J. A. (2017, July 19). More jobs, rising wages, broader advances: Seven indicators of New York’s economic health. Center for New York Affairs. Retrieved from http://www.centernyc.org/seven-indicators/

Posillico, F., & Ventura, A. M. (2016). Has the amount of federal aid to New York City changed over the past five years? New York, NY: Independent Budget Office. Retrieved from https://ibo.nyc.ny.us/cgi-park2/2016/02/has-the-amount-of-federal-aid-to-new-york-city-changed-over-the-past-five-years/

Recommended: Bardin, R., & Dardia, M. (2015, August 3). The cost of more cops: A full accounting.

Citizens Budget Commission of New York. Retrieved from https://cbcny.org/research/cost-more-cops-full-accounting

Budget navigator for New York State and New York City finances . (2017, May 31). Retrieved from https://cbcny.org/research/budget-navigator

DiNapoli, T. P., & Bleiwas, K. B. (2016). Review of the Financial Plan of the City of New York (No. 3–2016). Albany, NY: Office of the State Comptroller. Retrieved from http://www.osc.state.ny.us/osdc/rpt3-2016.pdf

WEEK 6: Elections, Political Participation, and Voting How have federal immigration policies influenced political and cultural systems,

economic activity, and neighborhood revitalization in New York City? How have NYC policies and institutions encouraged immigration in the city?

Required: Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center. (2018). Voting and

population patterns - NY Congressional District 14, June 2018 Democratic Primary. New York, NY: Author.

City of New York. (2004). New York City Charter. New York, NY: Author. Retrieved from http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/section%201133_citycharter.pdf

Gordon, A. W. (2018, June 29). June 29, 2018: Breathe our air. Signal Problems. Retrieved from https://signalproblems.substack.com/p/june-29-2018-breathe-our-air

Jilani, Z., & Grim, R. (2018, July 2). Data suggest that gentrifying neighborhoods powered Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory. The Intercept. Retrieved from https://theintercept.com/2018/07/01/ocasio-cortez-data-suggests-that-gentrifying-neighborhoods-powered-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-victory-over-the-democratic-establishment/

Marans, D. (2018, June 28). How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez caught fire and took down the “King of Queens.” Huffington Post. Retrieved from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-caught-fire-took-down-joe-crowley_us_5b34ec7ce4b0b5e692f57206

Neuman, W. (2018, August 17). New York’s push to end inequality extends to garbage. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/nyregion/nyc-garbage-pickup-neighborhoods.html

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Pazmino, G. (2018, June 27). New York City political leaders grapple with life after the machine. Politico. Retrieved from https://politi.co/2KrHv6J

Recommended:Anderson, E. (2000). Beyond the melting pot reconsidered. The International Migration Review, 34(1), 262–270. https://doi.org/10.2307/2676023

Asian American Federation. (2013). 2013 New York City Council Districts and Asian Communities. New York, NY: Author. Retrieved from http://www.aafny.org/cic/briefs/NYCcouncil2013.pdf

Falcón, A. (2017, May 17). Latinos and New York City: Government employment update. The NiLP Report on Latino Politics & Policy. Retrieved from http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1101040629095&ca=f3e5a6e9-399b-41ef-9afd-b030dfe12471

Foner, N. (2007). How exceptional is New York? Migration and multiculturalism in the empire city. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30(6), 999–1023. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870701599440

Kasinitz, P., Mollenkopf, J., & Waters, M. C. (2002). Becoming American/becoming New Yorkers: Immigrant incorporation in a majority minority city. International Migration Review, 36(4), 1020–1036. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7379.2002.tb00116.x

Mollenkopf, J. (2014). The rise of immigrant influence in New York City politics. In N. Foner (Ed.), New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the new urban landscape (pp. 203–227). New York, NY: NYU Press. Retrieved from https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.nyu.edu/chapter/997809/pdf

Morales, E. (2013, December 19). The changing face of Latino politics in New York. North American Congress on Latin America. Retrieved from https://nacla.org/article/changing-face-latino-politics-new-york

Soodalter, R. (2011, October 26). The day New York tried to secede. HistoryNet. Retrieved from http://www.historynet.com/the-day-new-york-tried-to-secede.htm

WEEK 7: Planning, Land Use, Preservation, and Development What are the responsibilities of the City Planning Commission and the New York City

Landmarks Preservation Commission? How has development been affected by preservation values and regulations in NYC? Who is responsible for the management and maintenance of public open space in New

York City? How has the city sought to guide the development of its waterfront to shift from industrial

and port-related uses to residential and recreational purposes?

Required: E. K. Spann. (1988). The greatest grid: The New York Plan of 1811. In D. Schaffer (Ed.),

Two centuries of American planning (pp. 11–39). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Available on NYU Classes.

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Jackson, K. T. (2007). Robert Moses and the rise of New York: The Power Broker in perspective. In H. Ballon & K. T. Jackson (Eds.), Robert Moses and the modern city: The transformation of New York (pp. 67–71). New York, NY: Norton. Available at: https://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/rodberg16/files/2016/01/Kenneth-Jackson-Robert-Moses-and-the-Rise-of-New-York.pdf

Rosenberg, E. (2014, January 16). How NYC’s decade of rezoning changed the City of Industry. Curbed NY. Retrieved from https://ny.curbed.com/2014/1/16/10154488/how-nycs-decade-of-rezoning-changed-the-city-of-industry

Savitch-Lew, A. (2017, August 9). NYC’s Planning Commission: Rubber stamps or checks and balances? Retrieved from https://citylimits.org/2017/08/09/nycs-planning-commission-rubber-stamps-or-checks-and-balances/

Scobey, D. M. (2002). Empire city: The making and meaning of the New York City landscape. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. Available on NYU Classes.

o Read chapters 1-4 (pp. 15-157).

Recommended: Baics, G., & Meisterlin, L. (2016). Zoning before zoning: Land use and density in mid-

nineteenth-century New York City. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(5), 1152–1175. Available on NYU Classes.

Flint, A. (2009). The battle of Washington Square Park. In Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs took on New York’s master builder and transformed the American city (pp. 61–94). New York, NY: Random House. Available on NYU Classes.

“High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky” - Richard Hammond . (2011). [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x4e1dALkhc

Kurlansky, M. (2006). The big oyster: History on the half shell. New York, NY: Random House. Available on NYU Classes.

o Read chapters 4, 5, and 7 (pp. 58–113, 143–171) Luke Spencer. (2017, August 10). New York’s hidden remnants of the golden age of

steamships. Messy Nessy Chic. Retrieved from http://www.messynessychic.com/2017/08/10/new-yorks-hidden-remnants-of-the-golden-age-of-steamships/

Marcus, N. (2000). Zoning for the new century: A 50 year perspective: Record of a two-day conference for professionals, September 13 and 14, 1999. New York, NY: Real Estate Board of New York. Available on NYU Classes.

o Read second chapter, “Brief history of the zoning resolution” Moss, M. L. (1980). Staging a renaissance on the waterfront. New York Affairs, 6, 3–19.

Available on NYU Classes.

WEEK 8: September 11th, Redevelopment of Lower Manhattan, and the World Trade Center Site

What were the long-term impacts of the 9/11 attacks on New York City?

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How did the municipal and state government plan for and invest in new parks and housing downtown after the September 11 attack?

How has the NYC Building Code been revised to reflect the threats from terrorism and the risks of environmental disasters?

Required: Brook, D. (2009, September 8). The architect of 9/11. Slate. Retrieved from

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/dispatches/features/2009/the_architect_of_911/what_can_we_learn_about_mohamed_atta_from_his_work_as_a_student_of_urban_planning.html

Glanz, J. M., & Lipton, E. (2003). City in the sky: The rise and fall of the World Trade Center. New York, NY: Times Books. Available on NYU Classes.

o Read chapter 5, “Steel balloons” (pp. 118–144). Moss, M. L. (2005). The redevelopment of Lower Manhattan: The role of the city. In J. H.

Mollenkopf (Ed.), The contentious city: The politics of recovery in New York City (pp. 95–111). New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. Retrieved from https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.nyu.edu/chapter/1549396

Sagalyn, L. B. (2016). Power at Ground Zero: Politics, money, and the remaking of Lower Manhattan Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4706432

o Read chapters 2-6 (pp. 45-189).

Recommended: Anderson, K. (2011, September 11). Of 9/11 memorials, monuments, and the WTC. The

Volokh Conspiracy. Retrieved from http://volokh.com/2011/09/11/of-911-memorials-monuments-and-the-wtc/

Dwyer, J., & Flynn, K. (2005). 102 minutes: The untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers. New York, NY: Times Press.

Goldberger, P. (2011, September 5). Shaping the void. The New Yorker. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/09/12/shaping-the-void

Huxtable, A. L. (2005, April 20). The death of the dream for the Ground-Zero site. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB111395250748411350

Kerr, L. (2001, December 28). The mosque to commerce. Slate. Retrieved from http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2001/12/the_mosque_to_commerce.html

Mahler, J. (2006, September 10). The Bloomberg vista. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/magazine/10bloomberg.html

Rice, A. (2011, August 4). The saving of Ground Zero. Bloomberg.com. Retrieved from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-08-03/the-saving-of-ground-zero

Salvo, J. J., Lobo, A. P., & Alvarez, J. A. (2007). A pre- and post-9/11 look (2000-2005) at Lower Manhattan (Paper prepared for the March 2007 Population Association Meetings in New York City). New York, NY: Population Division, Department of City Planning. Retrieved from https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/pre_post_911.pdf

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WEEK 9: Politics of Public Safety How did NYC become safe? Who (if anyone) should get credit for that? What’s the controversy there?

Required: Attinger, J. (1990, September 17). The decline of New York. Time. Retrieved from

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,971142,00.html Back to the Future in New York . (2016, May 26). Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from

https://www.wsj.com/articles/back-to-the-future-in-new-york-1464300737 Behind the decision on the stop-and-frisk policy . (2013, August 12). The New York

Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/08/12/nyregion/10-years-of-stop-and-frisk.html

Gopnik, A. (2018, February 5). The great crime decline. The New Yorker. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-great-crime-decline

Kelling, G. L. (2009). How New York became safe: The full story. City Journal, (Special Issue). Retrieved from https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-new-york-became-safe-full-story-13197.html

Kelling, G. L., & Bratton, W. J. (2015). Why we need broken windows policing. City Journal, (Winter). Retrieved from https://www.city-journal.org/html/why-we-need-broken-windows-policing-13696.html

Mathias, C. (2015, June 3). Relax, stop-and-frisk reforms aren’t making New York City dangerous again. Huffington Post. Retrieved from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/03/stop-and-frisk-shootings_n_7503496.html

Zimring, F. E. (2011). The city that became safe: New York’s lessons for urban crime and its control. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199844425.001.0001

Recommended: Barrett, W., & Collins, D. (2006). The grand illusion: The untold story of Rudy Giuliani

and 9/11. New York, NY: HarperCollins.o Read chapters 2 and 4 (pp. 27–78, 103–136)

Girgenti, R. (1993). A report to the Governor on the disturbances in Crown Heights: An assessment of the city’s preparedness and response to civil disorder. Albany: New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. Retrieved from https://www.scribd.com/embeds/192737414/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true

WEEK 10: Politics of Mobility: Uber, Taxis, and Congestion Pricing What transportation systems are the responsibilities of the MTA and Port Authority and

which transportations systems are under the control of NYC government?

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What makes the NYC subway system different from all other cities in the United States? How has the age of the subway system and increases in ridership affected the

conditions for riders? What are the priorities for improving the mass transit system in New York City? How have for-hire car services transformed mobility in New York City?

o How have they influenced congestion in Manhattan?o How can the city generate revenues and limit congestion from for-hire car

services?o What political and economic factors have affected proposals for tolling vehicles in

the core of Manhattan and imposing surcharges on for-hire car services and taxis?

Required: Finnegan, W. (2018, July 9). Can Andy Byford save the subways? The New Yorker.

Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/can-andy-byford-save-the-subways

Fitzsimmons, E. G. (2018, August 9). Uber hit with cap as New York City takes lead in crackdown. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/nyregion/uber-vote-city-council-cap.html

Goodman, J. D., & Grynbaum, M. M. (2016, February 4). Mayor de Blasio’s carriage-horse plan falters in City Council. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/nyregion/horse-carriage-deal-new-york.html

Grunwald, M. (2018, August). The tunnel that could break New York. POLITICO Magazine, (July/August 2018). Retrieved from https://politi.co/2lV3Xrb

Marshall, A. (2018, August 9). New York City Goes After Uber and Lyft. Wired. Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-city-cap-uber-lyft/

Mays, J. C. (2018, August 10). 3 Years Ago, Uber Beat Back a Cap on Vehicles. What’s Changed? A Lot. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/nyregion/uber-cap-nyc-decision-strategy.html

Rosenthal, B. M. (2017, December 28). The most expensive mile of subway track on earth. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html

Rosenthal, B. M., Fitzsimmons, E. G., & LaForgia, M. (2017, November 18). How politics and bad decisions starved New York’s subways. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-system-failure-delays.html

Santora, M., & Fitzsimmons, E. G. (2017, July 21). Fight over New York subways is as much political as it is financial. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/nyregion/subway-delays-mta-lhota.html

Silverman, A. (2017, July 27). The breaking point: Sorry state of the subway. CBS New York. Retrieved from http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/07/27/the-breaking-point-struggling-subway/

Recommended:

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Brecher, C., Dague, J., & Jain, R. (2014). Misplaced priorities in the MTA’s Capital Plan. New York, NY: Citizens Budget Commission. Retrieved from https://cbcny.org/research/misplaced-priorities-mtas-capital-plan

DeMause, N. (2017, August 3). The mysterious disappearance of Mayor de Blasio’s $2.5B streetcar plan. The Village Voice. Retrieved from https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/08/03/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-mayor-de-blasios-2-5b-streetcar-plan/

Gelinas, N. (2015). Fifteen stories under. City Journal, (Autumn 2015). Retrieved from https://www.city-journal.org/html/fifteen-stories-under-14105.html

Moss, M. L., Kaufman, S. M., Levy, S., Smith, A., & Hernandez, J. (2017). Subway ridership 1975-2015. New York, NY: NYU Rudin Center. Retrieved from https://wagner.nyu.edu/files/faculty/publications/State%20of%20Subway%20Ridership%20-%20Mar717.pdf

Schaller Consulting. (2006). Necessity or choice? Why people drive in Manhattan (Report prepared for Transportation Alternatives). New York, NY: Author. Retrieved from https://www.transalt.org/sites/default/files/news/magazine/2006/winter/schaller_Feb2006.pdf

WEEK 11: School Reform and Education Politics How has mayoral control of the public school system influenced school choice in New

York City?

Required: Concoran, S. P., & Levin, H. M. (2011). School choice and competition in the New York

City schools. In J. A. O’Day, C. S. Bitter, & L. M. Gomez (Eds.), Education reform in New York City: Ambitious change in the nation’s most complex school system (pp. 199–224). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. Available on NYU Classes.

Hu, W. (2018, August 14). Elite New York high schools to offer 1 in 5 slots to those below cutoff. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/nyregion/discovery-program-specialized-schools-nyc.html

Klein, J., & White, J. (2016, October 16). The urgent moral case for replacing persistently failing schools. The Daily Beast. Retrieved from https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/16/the-urgent-moral-case-for-replacing-persistently-failing-schools

Viega, C. (2018a, July 31). Can a proposal to expand gifted classes help integrate New York City’s specialized high schools? Chalkbeat. Retrieved from https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/07/31/can-a-proposal-to-expand-gifted-classes-help-integrate-new-york-citys-specialized-high-schools/

Viega, C. (2018b, August 13). Fair and objective or useless and biased? A Chalkbeat guide to the case for and against New York City’s specialized high school test. Chalkbeat. Retrieved from https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/08/13/fair-and-objective-or-useless-and-biased-a-chalkbeat-guide-to-the-case-for-and-against-new-york-citys-specialized-high-school-test/

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Recommended: Rogers, D. (2009). Vision for the transformation. In D. Rogers, Mayoral control of the

New York City schools (pp. 27–39). Boston, MA: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71143-0_4

Siskin, L. S. (2011). Changing contexts and the challenge of high school reform in New York City. In J. A. O’Day, C. S. Bitter, & L. M. Gomez (Eds.), Education reform in New York City: Ambitious change in the nation’s most complex school system (pp. 181–198). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. Available on NYU Classes.

WEEK 12: Economic Development Case Studies How did New York City’s Olympic bid catalyze development planning across the city? What other events or forces have contributed to the city’s economic success?

Required: Bram, J., & Ploenzke, M. (2015, July 6). Will Silicon Alley be the next Silicon Valley?

Liberty Street Economics. Retrieved from http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/07/will-silicon-alley-be-the-next-silicon-valley.html

Cox, H. (2017, August 17). West side storey: Manhattan’s $25bn Hudson Yards project. Financial Times. Retrieved from https://www.ft.com/content/642a68ec-7dbf-11e7-ab01-a13271d1ee9c. Also available on NYU Classes.

Moss, M. L. (2011). How New York City won the Olympics. New York, NY: NYU Rudin Center. Retrieved from https://wagner.nyu.edu/files/faculty/publications/Olympics_in_NYC_2012_REPORT_110711.pdf

Moss, M. L. (2016, March 29). Brooklyn has fully conquered New York. Observer. Retrieved from http://observer.com/2016/03/brooklyn-has-conquered-new-york/

Porter, M. E., Ketels, C. H. M., & Ramirez-Vallejo, J. (2013). New York City: Bloomberg’s strategy for economic development (Harvard Business School Case 714-404). Boston, MA: Harvard Business School. Retrieved from https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45078

Recommended: Angotti, T. (2008). New York for sale: Community planning confronts global real estate.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Retrieved from https://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/caldwell15/files/2015/02/New-York-for-Sale-Community-Planning-Confronts-Global-Real-Esta.pdf

Forman, A. (2005). Creative New York. New York, NY: Center for an Urban Future. Retrieved from https://nycfuture.org/research/creative-new-york-2015

Leonard, D. (2018, January 10). The most awful train station in America could get Unimaginably worse. Bloomberg.com. Retrieved from

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-10/the-most-awful-transit-center-in-america-could-get-unimaginably-worse

Moss, M. L. (2007). From beaver pelts to derivatives: Why New York City thrives. Rothman’s Magazine, (Autumn 2007/Winter 2008), 6–10. Retrieved from https://static1.squarespace.com/static/579a1817c534a55fb9b42a6d/t/579f92f5ebbd1a69c022e6cb/1470075640115/From+Beaver+Pelts+to+Derivatives.pdf

O’Grady, J., & Bowles, J. (2009). Building New York City’s innovation economy. New York, NY: Center for an Urban Future. Retrieved from https://nycfuture.org/research/building-new-york-citys-innovation-economy

O’Neill, H., & Moss, M. L. (1991). Reinventing New York: Competing in the next century’s global economy. New York, NY: NYU Urban Research Center. Retrieved from https://static1.squarespace.com/static/579a1817c534a55fb9b42a6d/t/57b21dca725e251cb1091088/1471290833274/Reinventing+New+York.pdf

WEEK 13: The Role of the Media in Policymaking How do urban policy issues get on the municipal agenda? How have information technologies changed the way in which the public learns and

participates in decision making? How have advanced telecommunications transformed the location of urban activity?

Required: Moynihan, C. (2018, August 16). Think there are too many bars in your neighborhood?

You’re not alone. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/nyregion/liquor-licenses-bars-nyc.html

Rich, W. C. (2006). Crime coverage, mayoral images, and signaling. In David Dinkins and New York City politics: Race, images, and the media (pp. 145–164). New York: State University of New York Press. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.proxy.library.nyu.edu/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3407433#

The revolutionary post . (2017, January 24). 99% Invisible. Oakland, CA: Radiotopia. Retrieved from https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-revolutionary-post/

Additional required readings to be assigned.

Recommended: Moss, M. L., & Ludwig, S. (1992). The structure of the media. In J. H. Mollenkopf & M.

Castells (Eds.), Dual city: Restructuring New York (pp. 245–266). New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. Retrieved from http://muse.jhu.edu/book/38494/

Moss, M. L., & Townsend, A. M. (2000). How telecommunications systems are transforming urban spaces. In J. O. Wheeler (Ed.), Cities in the telecommunications age: The fracturing of geographies (pp. 31–41). New York, NY: Routledge. Available on NYU Classes.

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WEEK 14: Planning for the Future How has Superstorm Sandy influenced the city’s commitment to planning for

development in its floodplain zones? How will new technologies influence the form and function of New York City?

Required: Chen, D. W. (2018, January 7). In New York, drawing flood maps is a ‘game of inches.’

The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/nyregion/new-york-city-flood-maps-fema.html

Thrift, N. (2004). ‘Cities Without Modernity, Cities With Magic.’ In S. Graham (Ed.), The cybercities reader (pp. 98–110). New York, NY: Routledge. Available on NYU Classes.

Additional required readings to be assigned.

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