• Neighborhood Problem
    • The sidewalks in Greene, Mercer and Broadway street are too narrow to hold the crowd especially when stores on sale, street under constructions and too many private traders on sidewalks. The narrow sidewalks are not convenient or even safe for tourists and customers when they’re trying to go somewhere. Moreover, the narrow sidewalks are also dangerous for people to stand and walk.
  • 5 Why Questions:
    1. Why people feel a little crowded in SoHo?
    2. Why the narrow sidewalks are dangerous for people to walk?
    3. Why there are plenty of private trader allowed to be on the sidewalks?
    4. Why the sidewalks in SoHo are kind of narrow compare to other shopping center?
    5. Why SoHo attracts so many people to come everyday?
  • 10-source reading list
    1. Sorkin, Michael, Twenty minutes in Manhattan(Reaktion Books Ltd,1948- • 2009)
    2. Kahn, Steve, SoHo,New York (Rizzoli ; [distributed by St. Martin’s Press,1943- • 1999)
    3.  Shkuda, Aaron, The lofts of SoHo : gentrification, art, and industry in New York, 1950-1980 (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
    4.  Nelligan, Marci,  Intersection : sidewalks and public space (ChainLinks ; Distributed by Small Press Distribution, 2008)
    5.  Gayle, Margot, Friends of Cast Iron Architecture presents A walking tour of cast-iron architecture in SoHo (Friends of Cast Iron Architecture)
    6.  Kostelanetz, Richard, Artists’ SoHo : 49 episodes of intimate history
      (Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press,2015)
    7.  Loukaitou-Sideris, Sidewalks : conflict and negotiation over public space (Anastasia, 1958- • 2009) 
    8.   Duneier, Mitchell, Sidewalk (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)
    9.  Bridger, Margot, Sidewalks of New York [videorecording]
    10. Avi Friedman, Fundamentals of sustainavle neighbourhood (Springer International Publishing, 2015)