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New York’s Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community

– Glazer, Nathan. "New York's Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community." Commentary, December, 1958.
Excerpt: New York’s Puerto Rican immigrants, who have already established a community in the city larger than the population of Seattle or New Orleans, are a historical accident. When… More

Is ‘Integration’ Possible in the New York Schools?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Is 'Integration' Possible in the New York Schools?" Commentary, 1960.
Excerpt: It is now more than six years since “integration” became an issue in the New York City school system; and, very likely, at the start of the new school term some of New… More

Is New York City Ungovernable?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Is New York City Ungovernable?" Commentary, 1961.
Excerpt: Anyone studying the city of New York (as I have done for the past year or so) is likely to run across certain facts that cast a rather strange light on the present confusion in its… More

City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities

– Glazer, Nathan. "City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities." Commentary, 1962.
Excerpt: The American city is distinguished among big cities by virtue of the fact that the different ethnic elements making it up are very often of approximately equal size.

A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans

– Glazer, Nathan. "A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans." Commentary, July, 1963.
Excerpt: If someone twenty-five years ago had looked around at the potential sources of new immigration to New York City, his eye might well have fallen on Puerto Rico, but he would… More

Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism

– Glazer, Nathan. "Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism." Commentary, 1964.
Excerpt: If today one re-reads the article by Kenneth Clark on Negro-Jewish relations that was published in Commentary almost nineteen years ago, one will discover that tension between… More

Paradoxes of American Poverty

– Glazer, Nathan. "Paradoxes of American Poverty." The Public Interest, 1965.
Excerpt: Presidents, socialists, reformers and academicians have set the prevailing contemporary tone in discussing poverty in America– shock and outrage that it should exist, followed by… More

Housing Problems and Housing Policies

– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.
Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More

110 Livingston Street by David Rogers Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. "110 Livingston Street, by David Rogers Reviewed." Review of 110 Livingston Street by David Rogers, Commentary, May, 1969.
Excerpt: One can scarcely conceive of an issue more important to the future of the cities than the failure of the New York City Board of Education and the political structure of the City of… More

A New Look at the Melting Pot

– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.
Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More

The Street Gangs and Ethnic Enterprise

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Street Gangs and Ethnic Enterprise." The Public Interest, 1972.
Excerpt: It has long been felt by those who struggle with the acute problems of living in the low-income areas of our cities that some answers could be found in the informal structures of… More

On Opening Up the Suburbs

– Glazer, Nathan. "On opening up the suburbs." The Public Interest, 1974.
Excerpt: We are living through what seems to be a low point of interest in the “crisis of the cities.” There are no longer any major television documentaries. The economic crisis of the… More

On subway graffiti in New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "On subway graffiti in New York." The Public Interest 54 (1979): 3-11.
Excerpt: For six years or so one of the more astonishing sights of New York has been the graffiti on the subway trains. The word “graffiti” scarcely suggests, to those who have not seen… More

The Zone of Destruction

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Zone of Destruction." The Public Interest 65 (1981): 102-108.
Excerpt: This is little book, the first, I believe, on the spreading destruction of New York City’s housing, has received little or no attention, which is a more serious indictment of New… More

Christo in Central Park and in Harlem

– Glazer, Nathan. "Christo in Central Park and in Harlem." The Public Interest 68 (1982): 70-77.
Excerpt: The artist Christo (sculptor? happenings director? temporary environments creator?) has proposed for New York’s Central Park what is undoubtedly his largest project to date:… More

Paris – the view from New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "Paris - the view from New York." The Public Interest, 1984.
Excerpt: In the two weeks after my return from a year in Paris, the New York Times reported that there were some serious derailments on the New York City subway, trains were slowed in the… More

Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982

– Glazer, Nathan. Ethnic Dilemmas 1964-1982. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Ethnic Dilemma’s encompasses a collection of Glazer’s essays from 1964 to 1982.  These essays chronicle Glazer’s reaction to the Civil Rights Movement’s goals,… More

The City that Never Sweeps

– Glazer, Nathan. The City that Never Sweeps." The Public Interest 83 (1986): 108-112.
Excerpt: Not long ago, a writer who had left New York City and was living in the South was interviewed in the New York Times. She said she had left because all discussion in New York—even… More

The Public Face of Architecture

– Glazer, Nathan and Mark Lilla, editors. The Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces. New York: Free Press, 1987.
Edited by Nathan Glazer and Mark Lilla, The Public Face of Architecture brings together a collection of works highlighting architecture’s role in shaping public life.

The Lessons of New York City

– Glazer, Nathan. "The lessons of New York City." The Public Interest 104 (1991): 37-49.
Excerpt: To consider the future of our cities here in the building of the New York Academy of Medicine, at 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue, presents an opportunity for some telling contrasts… More

The real world of urban education

– Glazer, Nathan. "The real world of urban education." The Public Interest 106 (1992): 57-75.
Excerpt: We are now in the eighth year of a fever of concern about the quality of American education that has been unparalleled in the history of the republic. We can date it from the 1983… More

Subverting the context: Public space and public design

– Glazer, Nathan. "'Subverting the context': Public space and public design." The Public Interest 109 (1992): 3-21.
Excerpt: The age when we built great city parks, or parkways, or boulevards is over and has been for forty years or more. Anyone raised in New York City or Boston knows how much these… More

A human capital policy for the cities

– Glazer, Nathan. "A human capital policy for the cities." The Public Interest 112 (1993): 27-49.
Excerpt: A new national administration has taken office, one of whose defining characteristics is its commitment to human capital investment, which it sees as crucial for the restoration of… More

Black and white after thirty years

– Glazer, Nathan. "Black and white after thirty years." The Public Interest 121 (1995): 61-79.
Excerpt: There is nothing that concentrates the mind on an issue more sharply than discovering one has been wrong about it. Twenty years ago, in an article in The Public Interest, I dealt… More

Monuments in an age without heroes

– Glazer, Nathan. "Monuments in an age without heroes." The Public Interest 123 (1996): 22-39.
Excerpt: The appearance of The Encyclopedia of New York City, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, leads one to think of one of Parkinson’s laws: When the capital is complete, the empire is… More

New York: the ‘old city’

– Glazer, Nathan. "New York: the 'old city'." The Public Interest 125 (1996): 61-79.
Excerpt: It was not much noted, or indeed noted at all, that the Million Man March in Washington last November took place in front of what was described in the 1937 Works Progress… More

The college and the city: then and now

– Glazer, Nathan. "The college and the city: then and now." The Public Interest 132 (1998): 3-20.
Excerpt: The City College of New York celebrated its 150th anniversary during the current academic year. It also celebrated progress in the $85 million restoration of the grand collegiate… More

Shanghai Surprise

– Glazer, Nathan. "Shanghai Surprise." The New Republic, January 30, 2008.
Excerpt: Shanghai, from which I have just returned after a first visit to China, has a specially built modern museum to house exhibits on the planning for the future Shanghai, and it… More

The Best Addresses

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Best Addresses." Review of Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida, The New Republic, December 3, 2008.
Excerpt: In 2002, with The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida launched one of those terms or categories or ideas–there have been many–that try to structure our… More

Tale of Two Cities

– Glazer, Nathan. "Tale of Two Cities." Review of Hope and Despair in the American City by Gerald Grant, Education Next, Spring 2010.
Excerpt: Syracuse, New York, does not appear in the title of this book, as Raleigh, North Carolina, does, but its experience is the reason for it. Author Gerald Grant was born in Syracuse… More

When Ideas Mattered: A Nathan Glazer Reader

– Glazer, Nathan. Joseph Dorman and Leslie Lenkowsky, eds. When Ideas Mattered. New York: Transaction Publishers, 2016.
Sociologist Nathan Glazer’s remarkably long and productive career as a New York intellectual spans seven decades from the Great Depression era to the late twentieth century. A voracious… More

Essays

New York’s Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community

– Glazer, Nathan. "New York's Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community." Commentary, December, 1958.
Excerpt: New York’s Puerto Rican immigrants, who have already established a community in the city larger than the population of Seattle or New Orleans, are a historical accident. When… More

Is ‘Integration’ Possible in the New York Schools?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Is 'Integration' Possible in the New York Schools?" Commentary, 1960.
Excerpt: It is now more than six years since “integration” became an issue in the New York City school system; and, very likely, at the start of the new school term some of New… More

Is New York City Ungovernable?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Is New York City Ungovernable?" Commentary, 1961.
Excerpt: Anyone studying the city of New York (as I have done for the past year or so) is likely to run across certain facts that cast a rather strange light on the present confusion in its… More

City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities

– Glazer, Nathan. "City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities." Commentary, 1962.
Excerpt: The American city is distinguished among big cities by virtue of the fact that the different ethnic elements making it up are very often of approximately equal size.

A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans

– Glazer, Nathan. "A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans." Commentary, July, 1963.
Excerpt: If someone twenty-five years ago had looked around at the potential sources of new immigration to New York City, his eye might well have fallen on Puerto Rico, but he would… More

Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism

– Glazer, Nathan. "Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism." Commentary, 1964.
Excerpt: If today one re-reads the article by Kenneth Clark on Negro-Jewish relations that was published in Commentary almost nineteen years ago, one will discover that tension between… More

Paradoxes of American Poverty

– Glazer, Nathan. "Paradoxes of American Poverty." The Public Interest, 1965.
Excerpt: Presidents, socialists, reformers and academicians have set the prevailing contemporary tone in discussing poverty in America– shock and outrage that it should exist, followed by… More

Housing Problems and Housing Policies

– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.
Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More

110 Livingston Street by David Rogers Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. "110 Livingston Street, by David Rogers Reviewed." Review of 110 Livingston Street by David Rogers, Commentary, May, 1969.
Excerpt: One can scarcely conceive of an issue more important to the future of the cities than the failure of the New York City Board of Education and the political structure of the City of… More

A New Look at the Melting Pot

– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.
Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More

The Street Gangs and Ethnic Enterprise

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Street Gangs and Ethnic Enterprise." The Public Interest, 1972.
Excerpt: It has long been felt by those who struggle with the acute problems of living in the low-income areas of our cities that some answers could be found in the informal structures of… More

On Opening Up the Suburbs

– Glazer, Nathan. "On opening up the suburbs." The Public Interest, 1974.
Excerpt: We are living through what seems to be a low point of interest in the “crisis of the cities.” There are no longer any major television documentaries. The economic crisis of the… More

On subway graffiti in New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "On subway graffiti in New York." The Public Interest 54 (1979): 3-11.
Excerpt: For six years or so one of the more astonishing sights of New York has been the graffiti on the subway trains. The word “graffiti” scarcely suggests, to those who have not seen… More

The Zone of Destruction

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Zone of Destruction." The Public Interest 65 (1981): 102-108.
Excerpt: This is little book, the first, I believe, on the spreading destruction of New York City’s housing, has received little or no attention, which is a more serious indictment of New… More

Christo in Central Park and in Harlem

– Glazer, Nathan. "Christo in Central Park and in Harlem." The Public Interest 68 (1982): 70-77.
Excerpt: The artist Christo (sculptor? happenings director? temporary environments creator?) has proposed for New York’s Central Park what is undoubtedly his largest project to date:… More

Paris – the view from New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "Paris - the view from New York." The Public Interest, 1984.
Excerpt: In the two weeks after my return from a year in Paris, the New York Times reported that there were some serious derailments on the New York City subway, trains were slowed in the… More

Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982

– Glazer, Nathan. Ethnic Dilemmas 1964-1982. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Ethnic Dilemma’s encompasses a collection of Glazer’s essays from 1964 to 1982.  These essays chronicle Glazer’s reaction to the Civil Rights Movement’s goals,… More

The City that Never Sweeps

– Glazer, Nathan. The City that Never Sweeps." The Public Interest 83 (1986): 108-112.
Excerpt: Not long ago, a writer who had left New York City and was living in the South was interviewed in the New York Times. She said she had left because all discussion in New York—even… More

The Public Face of Architecture

– Glazer, Nathan and Mark Lilla, editors. The Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces. New York: Free Press, 1987.
Edited by Nathan Glazer and Mark Lilla, The Public Face of Architecture brings together a collection of works highlighting architecture’s role in shaping public life.

The Lessons of New York City

– Glazer, Nathan. "The lessons of New York City." The Public Interest 104 (1991): 37-49.
Excerpt: To consider the future of our cities here in the building of the New York Academy of Medicine, at 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue, presents an opportunity for some telling contrasts… More

The real world of urban education

– Glazer, Nathan. "The real world of urban education." The Public Interest 106 (1992): 57-75.
Excerpt: We are now in the eighth year of a fever of concern about the quality of American education that has been unparalleled in the history of the republic. We can date it from the 1983… More

Subverting the context: Public space and public design

– Glazer, Nathan. "'Subverting the context': Public space and public design." The Public Interest 109 (1992): 3-21.
Excerpt: The age when we built great city parks, or parkways, or boulevards is over and has been for forty years or more. Anyone raised in New York City or Boston knows how much these… More

A human capital policy for the cities

– Glazer, Nathan. "A human capital policy for the cities." The Public Interest 112 (1993): 27-49.
Excerpt: A new national administration has taken office, one of whose defining characteristics is its commitment to human capital investment, which it sees as crucial for the restoration of… More

Black and white after thirty years

– Glazer, Nathan. "Black and white after thirty years." The Public Interest 121 (1995): 61-79.
Excerpt: There is nothing that concentrates the mind on an issue more sharply than discovering one has been wrong about it. Twenty years ago, in an article in The Public Interest, I dealt… More

Monuments in an age without heroes

– Glazer, Nathan. "Monuments in an age without heroes." The Public Interest 123 (1996): 22-39.
Excerpt: The appearance of The Encyclopedia of New York City, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, leads one to think of one of Parkinson’s laws: When the capital is complete, the empire is… More

New York: the ‘old city’

– Glazer, Nathan. "New York: the 'old city'." The Public Interest 125 (1996): 61-79.
Excerpt: It was not much noted, or indeed noted at all, that the Million Man March in Washington last November took place in front of what was described in the 1937 Works Progress… More

The college and the city: then and now

– Glazer, Nathan. "The college and the city: then and now." The Public Interest 132 (1998): 3-20.
Excerpt: The City College of New York celebrated its 150th anniversary during the current academic year. It also celebrated progress in the $85 million restoration of the grand collegiate… More

Shanghai Surprise

– Glazer, Nathan. "Shanghai Surprise." The New Republic, January 30, 2008.
Excerpt: Shanghai, from which I have just returned after a first visit to China, has a specially built modern museum to house exhibits on the planning for the future Shanghai, and it… More

The Best Addresses

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Best Addresses." Review of Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida, The New Republic, December 3, 2008.
Excerpt: In 2002, with The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida launched one of those terms or categories or ideas–there have been many–that try to structure our… More

Tale of Two Cities

– Glazer, Nathan. "Tale of Two Cities." Review of Hope and Despair in the American City by Gerald Grant, Education Next, Spring 2010.
Excerpt: Syracuse, New York, does not appear in the title of this book, as Raleigh, North Carolina, does, but its experience is the reason for it. Author Gerald Grant was born in Syracuse… More

When Ideas Mattered: A Nathan Glazer Reader

– Glazer, Nathan. Joseph Dorman and Leslie Lenkowsky, eds. When Ideas Mattered. New York: Transaction Publishers, 2016.
Sociologist Nathan Glazer’s remarkably long and productive career as a New York intellectual spans seven decades from the Great Depression era to the late twentieth century. A voracious… More

Commentary

New York’s Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community

– Glazer, Nathan. "New York's Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community." Commentary, December, 1958.
Excerpt: New York’s Puerto Rican immigrants, who have already established a community in the city larger than the population of Seattle or New Orleans, are a historical accident. When… More

Is ‘Integration’ Possible in the New York Schools?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Is 'Integration' Possible in the New York Schools?" Commentary, 1960.
Excerpt: It is now more than six years since “integration” became an issue in the New York City school system; and, very likely, at the start of the new school term some of New… More

Is New York City Ungovernable?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Is New York City Ungovernable?" Commentary, 1961.
Excerpt: Anyone studying the city of New York (as I have done for the past year or so) is likely to run across certain facts that cast a rather strange light on the present confusion in its… More

City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities

– Glazer, Nathan. "City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities." Commentary, 1962.
Excerpt: The American city is distinguished among big cities by virtue of the fact that the different ethnic elements making it up are very often of approximately equal size.

A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans

– Glazer, Nathan. "A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans." Commentary, July, 1963.
Excerpt: If someone twenty-five years ago had looked around at the potential sources of new immigration to New York City, his eye might well have fallen on Puerto Rico, but he would… More

Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism

– Glazer, Nathan. "Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism." Commentary, 1964.
Excerpt: If today one re-reads the article by Kenneth Clark on Negro-Jewish relations that was published in Commentary almost nineteen years ago, one will discover that tension between… More

Paradoxes of American Poverty

– Glazer, Nathan. "Paradoxes of American Poverty." The Public Interest, 1965.
Excerpt: Presidents, socialists, reformers and academicians have set the prevailing contemporary tone in discussing poverty in America– shock and outrage that it should exist, followed by… More

Housing Problems and Housing Policies

– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.
Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More

110 Livingston Street by David Rogers Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. "110 Livingston Street, by David Rogers Reviewed." Review of 110 Livingston Street by David Rogers, Commentary, May, 1969.
Excerpt: One can scarcely conceive of an issue more important to the future of the cities than the failure of the New York City Board of Education and the political structure of the City of… More

A New Look at the Melting Pot

– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.
Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More

The Street Gangs and Ethnic Enterprise

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Street Gangs and Ethnic Enterprise." The Public Interest, 1972.
Excerpt: It has long been felt by those who struggle with the acute problems of living in the low-income areas of our cities that some answers could be found in the informal structures of… More

On Opening Up the Suburbs

– Glazer, Nathan. "On opening up the suburbs." The Public Interest, 1974.
Excerpt: We are living through what seems to be a low point of interest in the “crisis of the cities.” There are no longer any major television documentaries. The economic crisis of the… More

On subway graffiti in New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "On subway graffiti in New York." The Public Interest 54 (1979): 3-11.
Excerpt: For six years or so one of the more astonishing sights of New York has been the graffiti on the subway trains. The word “graffiti” scarcely suggests, to those who have not seen… More

The Zone of Destruction

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Zone of Destruction." The Public Interest 65 (1981): 102-108.
Excerpt: This is little book, the first, I believe, on the spreading destruction of New York City’s housing, has received little or no attention, which is a more serious indictment of New… More

Christo in Central Park and in Harlem

– Glazer, Nathan. "Christo in Central Park and in Harlem." The Public Interest 68 (1982): 70-77.
Excerpt: The artist Christo (sculptor? happenings director? temporary environments creator?) has proposed for New York’s Central Park what is undoubtedly his largest project to date:… More

Paris – the view from New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "Paris - the view from New York." The Public Interest, 1984.
Excerpt: In the two weeks after my return from a year in Paris, the New York Times reported that there were some serious derailments on the New York City subway, trains were slowed in the… More

Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982

– Glazer, Nathan. Ethnic Dilemmas 1964-1982. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Ethnic Dilemma’s encompasses a collection of Glazer’s essays from 1964 to 1982.  These essays chronicle Glazer’s reaction to the Civil Rights Movement’s goals,… More

The City that Never Sweeps

– Glazer, Nathan. The City that Never Sweeps." The Public Interest 83 (1986): 108-112.
Excerpt: Not long ago, a writer who had left New York City and was living in the South was interviewed in the New York Times. She said she had left because all discussion in New York—even… More

The Public Face of Architecture

– Glazer, Nathan and Mark Lilla, editors. The Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces. New York: Free Press, 1987.
Edited by Nathan Glazer and Mark Lilla, The Public Face of Architecture brings together a collection of works highlighting architecture’s role in shaping public life.

The Lessons of New York City

– Glazer, Nathan. "The lessons of New York City." The Public Interest 104 (1991): 37-49.
Excerpt: To consider the future of our cities here in the building of the New York Academy of Medicine, at 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue, presents an opportunity for some telling contrasts… More

The real world of urban education

– Glazer, Nathan. "The real world of urban education." The Public Interest 106 (1992): 57-75.
Excerpt: We are now in the eighth year of a fever of concern about the quality of American education that has been unparalleled in the history of the republic. We can date it from the 1983… More

Subverting the context: Public space and public design

– Glazer, Nathan. "'Subverting the context': Public space and public design." The Public Interest 109 (1992): 3-21.
Excerpt: The age when we built great city parks, or parkways, or boulevards is over and has been for forty years or more. Anyone raised in New York City or Boston knows how much these… More

A human capital policy for the cities

– Glazer, Nathan. "A human capital policy for the cities." The Public Interest 112 (1993): 27-49.
Excerpt: A new national administration has taken office, one of whose defining characteristics is its commitment to human capital investment, which it sees as crucial for the restoration of… More

Black and white after thirty years

– Glazer, Nathan. "Black and white after thirty years." The Public Interest 121 (1995): 61-79.
Excerpt: There is nothing that concentrates the mind on an issue more sharply than discovering one has been wrong about it. Twenty years ago, in an article in The Public Interest, I dealt… More

Monuments in an age without heroes

– Glazer, Nathan. "Monuments in an age without heroes." The Public Interest 123 (1996): 22-39.
Excerpt: The appearance of The Encyclopedia of New York City, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, leads one to think of one of Parkinson’s laws: When the capital is complete, the empire is… More

New York: the ‘old city’

– Glazer, Nathan. "New York: the 'old city'." The Public Interest 125 (1996): 61-79.
Excerpt: It was not much noted, or indeed noted at all, that the Million Man March in Washington last November took place in front of what was described in the 1937 Works Progress… More

The college and the city: then and now

– Glazer, Nathan. "The college and the city: then and now." The Public Interest 132 (1998): 3-20.
Excerpt: The City College of New York celebrated its 150th anniversary during the current academic year. It also celebrated progress in the $85 million restoration of the grand collegiate… More

Shanghai Surprise

– Glazer, Nathan. "Shanghai Surprise." The New Republic, January 30, 2008.
Excerpt: Shanghai, from which I have just returned after a first visit to China, has a specially built modern museum to house exhibits on the planning for the future Shanghai, and it… More

The Best Addresses

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Best Addresses." Review of Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida, The New Republic, December 3, 2008.
Excerpt: In 2002, with The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida launched one of those terms or categories or ideas–there have been many–that try to structure our… More

Tale of Two Cities

– Glazer, Nathan. "Tale of Two Cities." Review of Hope and Despair in the American City by Gerald Grant, Education Next, Spring 2010.
Excerpt: Syracuse, New York, does not appear in the title of this book, as Raleigh, North Carolina, does, but its experience is the reason for it. Author Gerald Grant was born in Syracuse… More

When Ideas Mattered: A Nathan Glazer Reader

– Glazer, Nathan. Joseph Dorman and Leslie Lenkowsky, eds. When Ideas Mattered. New York: Transaction Publishers, 2016.
Sociologist Nathan Glazer’s remarkably long and productive career as a New York intellectual spans seven decades from the Great Depression era to the late twentieth century. A voracious… More

Multimedia

New York’s Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community

– Glazer, Nathan. "New York's Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community." Commentary, December, 1958.
Excerpt: New York’s Puerto Rican immigrants, who have already established a community in the city larger than the population of Seattle or New Orleans, are a historical accident. When… More

Is ‘Integration’ Possible in the New York Schools?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Is 'Integration' Possible in the New York Schools?" Commentary, 1960.
Excerpt: It is now more than six years since “integration” became an issue in the New York City school system; and, very likely, at the start of the new school term some of New… More

Is New York City Ungovernable?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Is New York City Ungovernable?" Commentary, 1961.
Excerpt: Anyone studying the city of New York (as I have done for the past year or so) is likely to run across certain facts that cast a rather strange light on the present confusion in its… More

City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities

– Glazer, Nathan. "City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities." Commentary, 1962.
Excerpt: The American city is distinguished among big cities by virtue of the fact that the different ethnic elements making it up are very often of approximately equal size.

A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans

– Glazer, Nathan. "A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans." Commentary, July, 1963.
Excerpt: If someone twenty-five years ago had looked around at the potential sources of new immigration to New York City, his eye might well have fallen on Puerto Rico, but he would… More

Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism

– Glazer, Nathan. "Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism." Commentary, 1964.
Excerpt: If today one re-reads the article by Kenneth Clark on Negro-Jewish relations that was published in Commentary almost nineteen years ago, one will discover that tension between… More

Paradoxes of American Poverty

– Glazer, Nathan. "Paradoxes of American Poverty." The Public Interest, 1965.
Excerpt: Presidents, socialists, reformers and academicians have set the prevailing contemporary tone in discussing poverty in America– shock and outrage that it should exist, followed by… More

Housing Problems and Housing Policies

– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.
Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More

110 Livingston Street by David Rogers Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. "110 Livingston Street, by David Rogers Reviewed." Review of 110 Livingston Street by David Rogers, Commentary, May, 1969.
Excerpt: One can scarcely conceive of an issue more important to the future of the cities than the failure of the New York City Board of Education and the political structure of the City of… More

A New Look at the Melting Pot

– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.
Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More

The Street Gangs and Ethnic Enterprise

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Street Gangs and Ethnic Enterprise." The Public Interest, 1972.
Excerpt: It has long been felt by those who struggle with the acute problems of living in the low-income areas of our cities that some answers could be found in the informal structures of… More

On Opening Up the Suburbs

– Glazer, Nathan. "On opening up the suburbs." The Public Interest, 1974.
Excerpt: We are living through what seems to be a low point of interest in the “crisis of the cities.” There are no longer any major television documentaries. The economic crisis of the… More

On subway graffiti in New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "On subway graffiti in New York." The Public Interest 54 (1979): 3-11.
Excerpt: For six years or so one of the more astonishing sights of New York has been the graffiti on the subway trains. The word “graffiti” scarcely suggests, to those who have not seen… More

The Zone of Destruction

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Zone of Destruction." The Public Interest 65 (1981): 102-108.
Excerpt: This is little book, the first, I believe, on the spreading destruction of New York City’s housing, has received little or no attention, which is a more serious indictment of New… More

Christo in Central Park and in Harlem

– Glazer, Nathan. "Christo in Central Park and in Harlem." The Public Interest 68 (1982): 70-77.
Excerpt: The artist Christo (sculptor? happenings director? temporary environments creator?) has proposed for New York’s Central Park what is undoubtedly his largest project to date:… More

Paris – the view from New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "Paris - the view from New York." The Public Interest, 1984.
Excerpt: In the two weeks after my return from a year in Paris, the New York Times reported that there were some serious derailments on the New York City subway, trains were slowed in the… More

Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982

– Glazer, Nathan. Ethnic Dilemmas 1964-1982. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Ethnic Dilemma’s encompasses a collection of Glazer’s essays from 1964 to 1982.  These essays chronicle Glazer’s reaction to the Civil Rights Movement’s goals,… More

The City that Never Sweeps

– Glazer, Nathan. The City that Never Sweeps." The Public Interest 83 (1986): 108-112.
Excerpt: Not long ago, a writer who had left New York City and was living in the South was interviewed in the New York Times. She said she had left because all discussion in New York—even… More

The Public Face of Architecture

– Glazer, Nathan and Mark Lilla, editors. The Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces. New York: Free Press, 1987.
Edited by Nathan Glazer and Mark Lilla, The Public Face of Architecture brings together a collection of works highlighting architecture’s role in shaping public life.

The Lessons of New York City

– Glazer, Nathan. "The lessons of New York City." The Public Interest 104 (1991): 37-49.
Excerpt: To consider the future of our cities here in the building of the New York Academy of Medicine, at 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue, presents an opportunity for some telling contrasts… More

The real world of urban education

– Glazer, Nathan. "The real world of urban education." The Public Interest 106 (1992): 57-75.
Excerpt: We are now in the eighth year of a fever of concern about the quality of American education that has been unparalleled in the history of the republic. We can date it from the 1983… More

Subverting the context: Public space and public design

– Glazer, Nathan. "'Subverting the context': Public space and public design." The Public Interest 109 (1992): 3-21.
Excerpt: The age when we built great city parks, or parkways, or boulevards is over and has been for forty years or more. Anyone raised in New York City or Boston knows how much these… More

A human capital policy for the cities

– Glazer, Nathan. "A human capital policy for the cities." The Public Interest 112 (1993): 27-49.
Excerpt: A new national administration has taken office, one of whose defining characteristics is its commitment to human capital investment, which it sees as crucial for the restoration of… More

Black and white after thirty years

– Glazer, Nathan. "Black and white after thirty years." The Public Interest 121 (1995): 61-79.
Excerpt: There is nothing that concentrates the mind on an issue more sharply than discovering one has been wrong about it. Twenty years ago, in an article in The Public Interest, I dealt… More

Monuments in an age without heroes

– Glazer, Nathan. "Monuments in an age without heroes." The Public Interest 123 (1996): 22-39.
Excerpt: The appearance of The Encyclopedia of New York City, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, leads one to think of one of Parkinson’s laws: When the capital is complete, the empire is… More

New York: the ‘old city’

– Glazer, Nathan. "New York: the 'old city'." The Public Interest 125 (1996): 61-79.
Excerpt: It was not much noted, or indeed noted at all, that the Million Man March in Washington last November took place in front of what was described in the 1937 Works Progress… More

The college and the city: then and now

– Glazer, Nathan. "The college and the city: then and now." The Public Interest 132 (1998): 3-20.
Excerpt: The City College of New York celebrated its 150th anniversary during the current academic year. It also celebrated progress in the $85 million restoration of the grand collegiate… More

Shanghai Surprise

– Glazer, Nathan. "Shanghai Surprise." The New Republic, January 30, 2008.
Excerpt: Shanghai, from which I have just returned after a first visit to China, has a specially built modern museum to house exhibits on the planning for the future Shanghai, and it… More

The Best Addresses

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Best Addresses." Review of Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida, The New Republic, December 3, 2008.
Excerpt: In 2002, with The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida launched one of those terms or categories or ideas–there have been many–that try to structure our… More

Tale of Two Cities

– Glazer, Nathan. "Tale of Two Cities." Review of Hope and Despair in the American City by Gerald Grant, Education Next, Spring 2010.
Excerpt: Syracuse, New York, does not appear in the title of this book, as Raleigh, North Carolina, does, but its experience is the reason for it. Author Gerald Grant was born in Syracuse… More

When Ideas Mattered: A Nathan Glazer Reader

– Glazer, Nathan. Joseph Dorman and Leslie Lenkowsky, eds. When Ideas Mattered. New York: Transaction Publishers, 2016.
Sociologist Nathan Glazer’s remarkably long and productive career as a New York intellectual spans seven decades from the Great Depression era to the late twentieth century. A voracious… More

Teaching

New York’s Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community

– Glazer, Nathan. "New York's Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community." Commentary, December, 1958.
Excerpt: New York’s Puerto Rican immigrants, who have already established a community in the city larger than the population of Seattle or New Orleans, are a historical accident. When… More

Is ‘Integration’ Possible in the New York Schools?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Is 'Integration' Possible in the New York Schools?" Commentary, 1960.
Excerpt: It is now more than six years since “integration” became an issue in the New York City school system; and, very likely, at the start of the new school term some of New… More

Is New York City Ungovernable?

– Glazer, Nathan. "Is New York City Ungovernable?" Commentary, 1961.
Excerpt: Anyone studying the city of New York (as I have done for the past year or so) is likely to run across certain facts that cast a rather strange light on the present confusion in its… More

City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities

– Glazer, Nathan. "City Problems & Jewish Responsibilities." Commentary, 1962.
Excerpt: The American city is distinguished among big cities by virtue of the fact that the different ethnic elements making it up are very often of approximately equal size.

A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans

– Glazer, Nathan. "A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans." Commentary, July, 1963.
Excerpt: If someone twenty-five years ago had looked around at the potential sources of new immigration to New York City, his eye might well have fallen on Puerto Rico, but he would… More

Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism

– Glazer, Nathan. "Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism." Commentary, 1964.
Excerpt: If today one re-reads the article by Kenneth Clark on Negro-Jewish relations that was published in Commentary almost nineteen years ago, one will discover that tension between… More

Paradoxes of American Poverty

– Glazer, Nathan. "Paradoxes of American Poverty." The Public Interest, 1965.
Excerpt: Presidents, socialists, reformers and academicians have set the prevailing contemporary tone in discussing poverty in America– shock and outrage that it should exist, followed by… More

Housing Problems and Housing Policies

– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.
Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More

110 Livingston Street by David Rogers Reviewed

– Glazer, Nathan. "110 Livingston Street, by David Rogers Reviewed." Review of 110 Livingston Street by David Rogers, Commentary, May, 1969.
Excerpt: One can scarcely conceive of an issue more important to the future of the cities than the failure of the New York City Board of Education and the political structure of the City of… More

A New Look at the Melting Pot

– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.
Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More

The Street Gangs and Ethnic Enterprise

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Street Gangs and Ethnic Enterprise." The Public Interest, 1972.
Excerpt: It has long been felt by those who struggle with the acute problems of living in the low-income areas of our cities that some answers could be found in the informal structures of… More

On Opening Up the Suburbs

– Glazer, Nathan. "On opening up the suburbs." The Public Interest, 1974.
Excerpt: We are living through what seems to be a low point of interest in the “crisis of the cities.” There are no longer any major television documentaries. The economic crisis of the… More

On subway graffiti in New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "On subway graffiti in New York." The Public Interest 54 (1979): 3-11.
Excerpt: For six years or so one of the more astonishing sights of New York has been the graffiti on the subway trains. The word “graffiti” scarcely suggests, to those who have not seen… More

The Zone of Destruction

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Zone of Destruction." The Public Interest 65 (1981): 102-108.
Excerpt: This is little book, the first, I believe, on the spreading destruction of New York City’s housing, has received little or no attention, which is a more serious indictment of New… More

Christo in Central Park and in Harlem

– Glazer, Nathan. "Christo in Central Park and in Harlem." The Public Interest 68 (1982): 70-77.
Excerpt: The artist Christo (sculptor? happenings director? temporary environments creator?) has proposed for New York’s Central Park what is undoubtedly his largest project to date:… More

Paris – the view from New York

– Glazer, Nathan. "Paris - the view from New York." The Public Interest, 1984.
Excerpt: In the two weeks after my return from a year in Paris, the New York Times reported that there were some serious derailments on the New York City subway, trains were slowed in the… More

Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982

– Glazer, Nathan. Ethnic Dilemmas 1964-1982. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Ethnic Dilemma’s encompasses a collection of Glazer’s essays from 1964 to 1982.  These essays chronicle Glazer’s reaction to the Civil Rights Movement’s goals,… More

The City that Never Sweeps

– Glazer, Nathan. The City that Never Sweeps." The Public Interest 83 (1986): 108-112.
Excerpt: Not long ago, a writer who had left New York City and was living in the South was interviewed in the New York Times. She said she had left because all discussion in New York—even… More

The Public Face of Architecture

– Glazer, Nathan and Mark Lilla, editors. The Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces. New York: Free Press, 1987.
Edited by Nathan Glazer and Mark Lilla, The Public Face of Architecture brings together a collection of works highlighting architecture’s role in shaping public life.

The Lessons of New York City

– Glazer, Nathan. "The lessons of New York City." The Public Interest 104 (1991): 37-49.
Excerpt: To consider the future of our cities here in the building of the New York Academy of Medicine, at 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue, presents an opportunity for some telling contrasts… More

The real world of urban education

– Glazer, Nathan. "The real world of urban education." The Public Interest 106 (1992): 57-75.
Excerpt: We are now in the eighth year of a fever of concern about the quality of American education that has been unparalleled in the history of the republic. We can date it from the 1983… More

Subverting the context: Public space and public design

– Glazer, Nathan. "'Subverting the context': Public space and public design." The Public Interest 109 (1992): 3-21.
Excerpt: The age when we built great city parks, or parkways, or boulevards is over and has been for forty years or more. Anyone raised in New York City or Boston knows how much these… More

A human capital policy for the cities

– Glazer, Nathan. "A human capital policy for the cities." The Public Interest 112 (1993): 27-49.
Excerpt: A new national administration has taken office, one of whose defining characteristics is its commitment to human capital investment, which it sees as crucial for the restoration of… More

Black and white after thirty years

– Glazer, Nathan. "Black and white after thirty years." The Public Interest 121 (1995): 61-79.
Excerpt: There is nothing that concentrates the mind on an issue more sharply than discovering one has been wrong about it. Twenty years ago, in an article in The Public Interest, I dealt… More

Monuments in an age without heroes

– Glazer, Nathan. "Monuments in an age without heroes." The Public Interest 123 (1996): 22-39.
Excerpt: The appearance of The Encyclopedia of New York City, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, leads one to think of one of Parkinson’s laws: When the capital is complete, the empire is… More

New York: the ‘old city’

– Glazer, Nathan. "New York: the 'old city'." The Public Interest 125 (1996): 61-79.
Excerpt: It was not much noted, or indeed noted at all, that the Million Man March in Washington last November took place in front of what was described in the 1937 Works Progress… More

The college and the city: then and now

– Glazer, Nathan. "The college and the city: then and now." The Public Interest 132 (1998): 3-20.
Excerpt: The City College of New York celebrated its 150th anniversary during the current academic year. It also celebrated progress in the $85 million restoration of the grand collegiate… More

Shanghai Surprise

– Glazer, Nathan. "Shanghai Surprise." The New Republic, January 30, 2008.
Excerpt: Shanghai, from which I have just returned after a first visit to China, has a specially built modern museum to house exhibits on the planning for the future Shanghai, and it… More

The Best Addresses

– Glazer, Nathan. "The Best Addresses." Review of Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida, The New Republic, December 3, 2008.
Excerpt: In 2002, with The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida launched one of those terms or categories or ideas–there have been many–that try to structure our… More

Tale of Two Cities

– Glazer, Nathan. "Tale of Two Cities." Review of Hope and Despair in the American City by Gerald Grant, Education Next, Spring 2010.
Excerpt: Syracuse, New York, does not appear in the title of this book, as Raleigh, North Carolina, does, but its experience is the reason for it. Author Gerald Grant was born in Syracuse… More

When Ideas Mattered: A Nathan Glazer Reader

– Glazer, Nathan. Joseph Dorman and Leslie Lenkowsky, eds. When Ideas Mattered. New York: Transaction Publishers, 2016.
Sociologist Nathan Glazer’s remarkably long and productive career as a New York intellectual spans seven decades from the Great Depression era to the late twentieth century. A voracious… More