Fundamental research on New York Urban- Architectural History : Through the key words of Society, Media and Real Estate

为了谋求一系列的研究，搜集基础资料是最关键的任务，如旧城地图、各种地籍图、老照片、旧报纸档案、景观图等。其次，与Richard Plunz教授（纽约哥伦比亚大学，城市设计总监）合作分析这些材料，得出纽约从新阿姆斯特丹阶段到现在的城市发展的一些结论。在这一发展过程中，纽约接受了许多来自欧洲——英国、法国和意大利的东西。除了这个基础研究，我们还探索了曼哈顿的房地产历史，特别是公寓的建筑类型。在纽约这个非常有限的地方，来自世界各地的大量人民来到了这个融点。城市住宅的公寓是由一些富有的业主提供的。当时的公寓条件很差，这个城市很快就出现了卫生问题。通过这项研究，我们可以找到很多纽约的房地产档案，我们的最终报告为这些数据预留了一些页面。最后，我们访问了纽约城市规划部，并就最近曼哈顿下城的城市政策进行了采访。纽约的城市历史研究包括三个关键词：社会、媒体和房地产。最终报告反映了这一观点，并将这三个关键词分开了各章。

In order to seek a series of research, the collection of basic data was most crucial mission, like old city maps, a various kind of cadastral plan, old photos, old newspaper archive, landscape drawings and so on.Secondly analyzing these materials in corporation with Professor Richard Plunz (Columbia University, New York, Director of Urban Design), we could reach some conclusion of urban development of New York, from the stage of New Amsterdam to now. In the process of this development, New York had been accepting so many things from Europe-England, France and Italy.Next to this basic study, we were exploring the real estate history of Manhattan, especially on the building type of apartment. Within the very limited place in New York, a huge number of peoples from every part of the world had been coming to the melting spot. The tenements of urban dwelling were provided by some rich property owner. The tenement was so bad condition at that time that the hygiene problem soon occurred in this city. Through this study, we could find a lot of real estate archives in New York, which our final report spared some pages for this data.Finally we visited New York Urban Planning Department and interviewed about the recent urban policy of Lower Manhattan.This urban historical study of New York consists of three key words : Society, Media and Real estate. The final report reflects this viewpoint and separated chapters indicate these three keywords.