PRESS

The following selection of clippings are a sample of the press while on the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, especially of the fight over Commissioner Tung's reappointment. The second grouping is from after his tenure on the LPC. The third group are book reviews. Entries marked with an asterisk (*) are authored by Anthony Tung.

AT THE LANDMARKS PREservation COMMISSION

• "Art Educator Appointed to Term on Landmarks Commission," Staten Island Advance, November 19, 1979

• "An Artisan's Plea," New York Times, November 13, 1985

• "How St. Bart's Lost Its Landmark Case," New York Post, February 26, 1986

• "Landmarks Panel Calls Plan For Bryant Park 'Untenable'," New York Times, January 8, 1987

• "A Landmark of Misfeasance," New York Times, editorial, January 11, 1987

• "Landmarks Commission Member Losing Post," New York Times, January 23, 1987

• "Bryant Park Restaurant Plan Was Landmarks Board Business," New York Times, January 28, 1987

• "Autocratic Controls," New York Times, January 28, 1987

• "A Feather-Ruffler Bites the Dust at City Hall," New York Newsday, January 30, 1987

• "Design Change of Skyscraper Provokes Debate on Hearing," New York Times, February 10, 1987

• "Preservationists Touting Tung," New York Magazine, March 30, 1987

• "Koch Opts for a Staten Island Hatchet Woman," New York Newsday, May 22, 1987

• "Landmark Panel Nominee Quits Over Report on Park Changes," New York Times, May 23, 1987

• "Landmarks Panel Declines to Endorse Bryant Park Restaurant Plan, New York Times, December 13, 1987

• "Apple Sauce: Heartburn," Daily News, December 14, 1987

• "Preserving Balance on Landmarks," New York Times, editorial, December 26, 1987

• "It Takes Single-Minded Zeal to Protect New York's Landmarks," Anthony M. Tung, New York Times, January 11, 1988 *

• "The Battle of Bryant Park," Village Voice, February 16, 1988

• "Cultural Politics," Staten Island Advance, editorial, February 19, 1988

• "Wise Guys: Weintraub's Landscape Contracts," New York Observer, February 29, 1988

• "Landmarks Panelist Persists, to Supporters' Relief," New York Times, March 7, 1988

• "Rational Balance Sought," New York Observer, March 14, 1988

• "Wise Guys: Paid Flack," New York Observer, March 21, 1988

• "A New Face for Landmarks," New York Times, editorial, March 22, 1988

• "Council OKs Panel Member," New York Newsday, March 24, 1988

POST-LANDMARKS COMMISSION CIVIC LIFE

• "Black Burial Ground Deserves More Than Just a Bronze Plaque," Anthony M. Tung, New York Times, January 18, 1992 *

• "Paving Over Black History," Anthony M. Tung, New York Newsday, July 9, 1992 *

• "Redesign the judicial center's King Street Facade," Anthony M. Tung, Charleston Post & Courier, October 29, 1997 *

• "Preserving The World's Great Cities: An Interview With Anthony M. Tung," Architectural Record Online, posted: 2002

• "The (Naked) City and the Undead," Tom Wolfe, New York Times, November 26, 2006
  
  
  

Reviews for Preserving the World’s Great Cities

• PW Forecast, Cahners Publishers Weekly, July 16, 2001

• "The Fragile Charms of the City," David Rock, BusinessWeek, October 22, 2001

• "The Verdict: A Remarkable Chronicle of Human Spirit and Architectural Heritage," C.A. Twardy, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 4, 2001

• Review, Robert Fishman, The Washington Post, November 25, 2001

• Review, Randolph Delehanty, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 23, 2001

• Review, Martin Zimmerman, The Charlotte Observer, February 18, 2002

• “Interview: In the Cause of Architecture,” Kevin Lerner, ArchitecturalRecord Online, April 1, 2002