Research Guides: Real Estate: Real Estate Library Collection

About the Jack Brause Library Collection

The Jack Brause Library maintains a closed-stack print collection, divided into Main and Reference sections, described below. All items in the collection can be found by searching the NYU Libraries catalog. Links to e-versions, when available, will be found in the catalog records.

Jack Brause Library: Main Collection

The Main Collection at the Jack Brause Library contains books that active students, faculty and staff can check out for extended loans. This collection covers real estate-related topics like development, finance, construction, sustainability, housing policy, urban policy, and more.

Users can request materials from library staff during open reference desk hours, or place pickup requests directly via links in the catalog records for main collection titles. Books will be placed in the contactless lockers found in the library study space, accessible during extended study hours.

New Print Books

The AFIRE Guide to U. S. Real Estate Investing, Fourth Edition: What Global Investors Need to Know about Commercial Real Estate Acquisition, Management, and Disposition by Will McIntosh (Editor)
Call Number: HD255 .A59 2024

ISBN: 9781265413460

Publication Date: 2024

Invest responsibly and generate long-term value with the definitive guide to U.S. real estate investing written specifically for non-U.S. investors
Building the 21st Century City Through Public-Private Partnerships by Stephen Buckman (Editor)
Call Number: HT371 .B775 2024

ISBN: 9781032120829

Publication Date: 2023

This book introduces the fundamentals of this unique form of cross-sector collaboration. From understanding the responsibilities of government and industry partners to stewardship of taxpayer dollars, this guide empowers developers to deliver successful commercial, leisure, and industrial projects neither could undertake on their own.
Creating the Hudson River Park by Tom Fox
Call Number: F128.65.H83 F69 2024

ISBN: 9781978814011

Publication Date: 2024

The 4-mile-long, 550-acre Hudson River Park is nearing completion and is the largest park built in Manhattan since Central Park opened more than 150 years ago. It has transformed a derelict waterfront, protected the Hudson River estuary, preserved commercial maritime activities, created new recreational opportunities for millions of New Yorkers, enhanced tourism, stimulated redevelopment in adjacent neighborhoods, and set a precedent for waterfront redevelopment. The Park attracts seventeen million visitors annually. Creating the Hudson River Park is a first-person story of how this park came to be. Working together over three decades, community groups, civic and environmental organizations, labor, the real estate and business community, government agencies, and elected officials won a historic victory for environmental preservation, the use and enjoyment of the Hudson River, and urban redevelopment.
Resilient Building Retrofits by Sarah Sayce (Editor); Sara Wilkinson (Editor); Gillian Armstrong (Editor); Samantha Organ (Editor)
Call Number: TH3401 .R48 2023

ISBN: 9780367903558

Publication Date: 2022

This radical book aims to inject new insight and urgency into the discourse on the retrofitting of commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency.
Streetfight: A Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan; Seth Solomonow
Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets safer and more vibrant.
Vital Little Plans by Jane Jacobs
An essential companion to Jacobs’s other books on urbanism, economics, politics, and ethics. It offers readers a unique survey of her entire career in forty short pieces that have never been collected in a single volume, from charming and incisive urban vignettes from the 1930s to the raw materials of her two unfinished books of the 2000s, together with introductions and annotations by editors Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring.

Jack Brause Library: Reference Collection

The Reference Collection within the Jack Brause Library contains a number of specialized real estate publications and directories, many popular textbooks, and a large collection of journals and newspapers. Many of these titles are also available electronically, and links can be found to the e-versions of these publications in the appropriate catalog records. Please click the following links, or use the tabs, for different categories of resources found in the Reference Collection: