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A critical urban scholar with a cross-disciplinary background, Alessandro Busà has published extensively on the social, cultural, and economic impact of urban development in New York's most iconic neighborhoods. Busà holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the Center for Metropolitan Studies of Berlin and has carried out research in New York City at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. ...more

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“And the space created by capital is a very seductive space indeed— provided you have the money.”
Alessandro Busà, The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite

“Over a decade of citywide rezonings, land speculations, and corporate bidding wars for available commercial space has produced a Darwinian habitat where corporate retail proliferates, and where mom-and-pops have become an endangered species.”
Alessandro Busà, The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite

“Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.”
Jeanette Pierce

“I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.”
Truman Capote

“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“And the space created by capital is a very seductive space indeed— provided you have the money.”
Alessandro Busà, The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite

“Over a decade of citywide rezonings, land speculations, and corporate bidding wars for available commercial space has produced a Darwinian habitat where corporate retail proliferates, and where mom-and-pops have become an endangered species.”
Alessandro Busà, The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite

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