Postcard Thursday: Planned Communities

courtesy of Tudor City Confidential

James has a story in today's New York Post about planned communities -- from Tudor City (above) to Garden City, Long Island, to Battery Park City -- and their utopian overtones.

You can read the story at https://nypost.com/2017/12/07/the-joys-of-living-in-new-yorks-utopian-planned-communities/

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Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers

Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City

Postcard Thursday: Jackson Heights

This week, James had a story published by Curbed on the history and development of Jackson Heights, Queens. The neighborhood is modeled on the "Garden City" ideal first put forward by English thinker Ebenezer Howard.

Read the story at http://ny.curbed.com/2017/4/19/15328342/jackson-heights-queens-history.

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Read more about NYC history in

 

Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers

Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City