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Fixing Broken Windows

Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities
By George L. Kelling & Catherine M. Coles

Based on a groundbreaking theory of crime prevention, this practical and empowering book shows how citizens, business owners, and police can work together to ensure the safety of their communities.

By following many of the principles outlined in the book, concentrating primarily on the prevention of “small scale crime” and nuisances, Bryant Park was reclaimed from vagrants and drug dealers in the 1980’s. Today we continue to aggressively monitor loud radios, cursing, spitting, and people leering at women or seeking to make a spectacle of themselves. Of course, we also clean up graffiti, pick up litter, and keep the space beautiful and well maintained. Fixing Broken Windows is a terrific read into understanding how your favorite public spaces remain safe and friendly.


About the Bryant Park Library
The success of Bryant Park’s renovation and renewal is in part the product of the work and ideas of remarkable authors. In this section you will find books that have championed the ideas on which we have built Bryant Park's management, or that dedicate some of their content to Bryant Park.
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
By William H. Whyte

In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture departments around the world.

About the Bryant Park Library
The success of Bryant Park’s renovation and renewal is in part the product of the work and ideas of remarkable authors. In this section you will find books that have championed the ideas on which we have built Bryant Park's management, or that dedicate some of their content to Bryant Park.

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City: Rediscovering the Center

City: Rediscovering the Center
By William H. Whyte

Whyte's Street Life Project studied the use of urban spaces for 16 years. This follow-up to The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces is an engaging look at the variety of human interactions which make "downtown" vibrant. Whyte looks at such diverse topics as pedestrian movement, concourses and skyways, sunlight and its effects, all from the perspective of a confirmed city-lover. His observations and recommendations can be read with profit and pleasure by professional planners and readers interested in what makes a city tick.

About the Bryant Park Library
The success of Bryant Park’s renovation and renewal is in part the product of the work and ideas of remarkable authors. In this section you will find books that have championed the ideas on which we have built Bryant Park's management, or that dedicate some of their content to Bryant Park.

Purchases from the Bryant Park Library are fulfilled by Amazon.com
First, Break All the Rules

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
By Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman

In First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the remarkable findings of their massive, in depth study of great managers.

In today's tight labor markets, companies compete to find and keep the best employees, using pay, benefits, promotions, and training. But no matter how generous its pay, or how renowned its training, the company that lacks great front-line managers will suffer.

Buckingham and Coffman explain how the best managers select an employee for talent rather than for skills or experience; how they set expectations; how they motivate people by building on each person's unique strengths; and, finally, how great managers find the right fit for each person, not the next rung on the ladder.

About the Bryant Park Library
The success of Bryant Park’s renovation and renewal is in part the product of the work and ideas of remarkable authors. In this section you will find books that have championed the ideas on which we have built Bryant Park's management, or that dedicate some of their content to Bryant Park.

Purchases from the Bryant Park Library are fulfilled by Amazon.com
Good to Great

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
By Jim Collins

Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets.

Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time. They finally settled on 11--including Fannie Mae, Gillette, Walgreens, and Wells Fargo--and discovered common traits that challenged many of the conventional notions of corporate success.

Making the transition from good to great doesn't require a high-profile CEO, the latest technology, innovative change management, or even a fine-tuned business strategy. At the heart of those rare and truly great companies was a corporate culture that rigorously found and promoted disciplined people to think and act in a disciplined manner. Peppered with dozens of stories and examples from the great and not so great, the book offers a well-reasoned road map to excellence that any organization would do well to consider.

About the Bryant Park Library
The success of Bryant Park’s renovation and renewal is in part the product of the work and ideas of remarkable authors. In this section you will find books that have championed the ideas on which we have built Bryant Park's management, or that dedicate some of their content to Bryant Park.

Purchases from the Bryant Park Library are fulfilled by Amazon.com
Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities

Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities
By Alexander Garvin

Everything that anybody (whether they are citizen activists, or public officials, or professional landscape architects, architects, and planners) needs to know about the critical role public parks play in creating livable communities. Millions of dollars are being spent on restoring parks and creating new ones. Planner Alexander Garvin explains the rationales for their existence, the forms they take, their value, ways to pay for and govern them, and the ingredients that make successful parks, providing the first single definitive source of wisdom about them.

About the Bryant Park Library
The success of Bryant Park’s renovation and renewal is in part the product of the work and ideas of remarkable authors. In this section you will find books that have championed the ideas on which we have built Bryant Park's management, or that dedicate some of their content to Bryant Park.

Purchases from the Bryant Park Library are fulfilled by Amazon.com
Urban Parks and Open Space

Urban Parks and Open Space
By Alexander Garvin, Gayle Berens, Christopher B. Leinberger, Martin J. Rosen, Steven Fader, Peter Harnik, Terry Jill Lassar, and David Mulvihill

Produced by the Urban Land Institute in cooperation with The Trust for Public Land, this book offers practical, cost-effective strategies for creating urban parks and open spaces. Illustrated in full color, the 225 page book describes how successful park and open space projects contribute to a community's economy and quality of life. Fifteen case studies reveal how communities across the country have envisioned, funded, and created successful parks

About the Bryant Park Library
The success of Bryant Park’s renovation and renewal is in part the product of the work and ideas of remarkable authors. In this section you will find books that have championed the ideas on which we have built Bryant Park's management, or that dedicate some of their content to Bryant Park.

Purchases from the Bryant Park Library are fulfilled by Amazon.com