"The hope that "Beyond Architecture: the new New York" will provide a lasting and energizing contribution to the 60th Anniversary, and beyond, reflecting the world in which we live, is to tell a new New York story in many of its dimensions. To reveal that story, I invited a number of the most informed, knowledgeable, and imaginative thought leaders, seminal thinkers, scholars, critics, essayists, engineers, historians, architects and landscape architects in New York City to write freely on any and all of these issues and aspects of the built environment, to include the role of historic preservation in a changing city, in order to present a wide range of viewpoints that we hope will stimulate thought, action, and activism"--
