The Over-Regulated City: A Perspective on Regulatory Procedures in the City of New York

1981 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold M. Hochman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Market Clearing ◽  
Pilot Studies ◽  
Local Regulation ◽  
Price Controls ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
The City

This article summarizes the pilot studies of local regulation in the City of New York of a team of City University of New York students and faculty. It deals with three categories of regulation: permits and licenses, qualitative restrictions on buildings and land use, and price controls. Direct effects on revenue and revenue potential seem small, but the burdens of compliance and enforcement appear to be significant. While no striking evidence that regulation is responsible for the economic fortunes of New York is unearthed, it seems clear, in many cases, that regulation serves no significant purpose, and has stifled incentive and inhibited market-clearing at “correct” prices. Further study, directed in particular to why private interests seem more successful in promoting their demands for regulation in New York than elsewhere, seems warranted.

The City in the Country: Wilderness Gentrification and the Rent Gap

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1015-1032 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliza Darling
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Rural Gentrification ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The City

In this paper I explore the efficacy of applying Neil Smith's theory of the rent gap to rural gentrification in New York State's Adirondack Park, making three central claims. In the first place, although the underlying impetus for both rural and urban gentrification (namely, the maximization of profit on the part of a variety of gentrifying agents from individual owner-occupants to large-scale developers) is essentially the same, some fundamental differences between the determination of what constitutes ‘undercapitalized’ ground rent in the city and the wilderness leads to subsequent differences in the geographical expression of gentrification in each area. In the second, the unique land-management practices instituted by the State of New York in this region have set up the conditions for a singular type of disinvestment not typically found in the city, rendering disinvestment a central aspect of Adirondack gentrification but in a different way than the disinvestment which anchors Smith's argument. Finally, I argue that the ‘postproductivist’ theories which have recently gained currency in the extant rural gentrification literature are not applicable to the empirical realities of Adirondack land use, suggesting that rural areas themselves may be sufficiently differentiated to render the idea of an overarching, homogeneous ‘rural gentrification’ suspect and pointing to the need for a more refined and specific set of labels to indicate a variety of landscape-specific gentrification models in the hinterlands.

New York City's mayoral election may favour centrists

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
City Council ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Zoning Regulations ◽  
Mayoral Election ◽  
The City

Significance In such a Democratic city, the party’s primary winner is expected to triumph easily over limited Republican opposition. However, several new factors in this year’s primary are complicating efforts to estimate likely turnout or identify front-runners among the eight main candidates. Impacts Significant changes to the zoning regulations governing land use across the city are possible under the next mayor. The left of the Democratic Party looks likely to win more seats during the concurrent City Council elections. Whoever wins, police reform will be a challenge for the incoming mayor and clashes with the police union are likely.

scholarly journals The Significance of Place in Urban Governance: Mart 125 and the Politics of Community Development in Harlem, New York

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
K. H. Mchunu ◽  
S. Mbatha
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Urban Regimes ◽  
Growth Machines ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Place And Identity

AbstractThe paper highlights the nexus between place and identity on the one hand, and urban entrepreneurialism on the other, which has become important nationally and internationally in recent decades. This refers to a form of urban governance that mixes together state with civil society and private interests to promote urban development. The city as a product of a common if perpetually changing and transitory urban life, “growth machines” or “urban regimes” play a significant role in the relationship between place and identity. This paper documents an instance of this relationship where the “growth machines” played themselves out in Harlem, New York City.

scholarly journals Water, Water Everywhere: Destiny, Politics and Commodification on New York’s Water Edge

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Ana Morcillo Pallares
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Water Edge ◽  
The City

<p>In 1973, in the midst of an economic downturn, New York City´s waterfront was envisioned as an enterprise for an urban renewal. This paper reflects on the interplay among a set of actors which was key in launching a more open, accessible, diverse and thrilling city´s edge. The intersecting condition among corporate capitalism, real estate, political interests and talented design illustrates the waterfront as particularly instrumental in the representation of a desire city to live in. However, the case study of two relevant built projects, Battery Park City and Gantry Plaza State Park, showcases different results in the challenge of the city´s waterfront strategy giving over its innovation, privileging instead the rapid commodification of the architecture and the unbalance between public and private interests.</p>

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

Bringing the Real World of Science to Children: A Partnership of the American Museum of Natural History and the City University of New York

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony G Picciano ◽  
Robert V. Steiner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Development Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Museum ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Every child has a right to an education. In the United States, the issue is not necessarily about access to a school but access to a quality education. With strict compulsory education laws, more than 50 million students enrolled in primary and secondary schools, and billions of dollars spent annually on public and private education, American children surely have access to buildings and classrooms. However, because of a complex and competitive system of shared policymaking among national, state, and local governments, not all schools are created equal nor are equal education opportunities available for the poor, minorities, and underprivileged. One manifestation of this inequity is the lack of qualified teachers in many urban and rural schools to teach certain subjects such as science, mathematics, and technology. The purpose of this article is to describe a partnership model between two major institutions (The American Museum of Natural History and The City University of New York) and the program designed to improve the way teachers are trained and children are taught and introduced to the world of science. These two institutions have partnered on various projects over the years to expand educational opportunity especially in the teaching of science. One of the more successful projects is Seminars on Science (SoS), an online teacher education and professional development program, that connects teachers across the United States and around the world to cutting-edge research and provides them with powerful classroom resources. This article provides the institutional perspectives, the challenges and the strategies that fostered this partnership.

IMPACT OF LAND USE ON URBAN WATER-LOGGING DISASTER: A CASE STUDY OF BEIJING AND NEW YORK CITIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 1211-1216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenfeng Zheng ◽  
Xiaolu Li ◽  
Nina Lam ◽  
Dan Wang ◽  
Lirong Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Logging
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