Nemeth article on public space management published in Urban Studies

My article detailing the results of empirical work on urban management in New York City appears in the current issue of Urban Studies. The article, “Defining a public: The management of privately owned public space” (Volume 46, No. 11, pp. 2463-2490) presents findings from 163 site visits to privately owned spaces in Manhattan. I find that while managers employ a number of techniques to control who uses their space (and how), the most dominant management approach is one that carefully selects and filters in an appropriate or desirable set of users. The article is available here; for those without access please e-mail me at jeremy(dot)nemeth(at)ucdenver(dot)edu.

Secure Cities website appears in popular blogs

The Secure Cities website got some recent press via an article by F. Kaid Benfield, Director of the Smart Growth program for the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Washington, DC.

NRDC Switchboard article here (July 24, 2009)
Huffington Post article here (July 24, 2009)

Benfield founded both Smart Growth America and the LEED for neighborhood (LEED-ND) initiative, a program intended to certify superior neighborhood development projects. Readers of the planning and development website Planetizen voted Benfield the #41 “urban thinker” in their recent poll.