Obituary: Noted Architect-Planner Jacquelin "Jacque" Robertson, 87

A renowned architect and planner, Jacquelin "Jacque" Robertson, who died on May 9 at age 87, started his career in New York City government, where he helped create the system that encouraged developers to provide ground-floor amenities in exchange for the right to add square footage.

Read more here about an innovator whom architect and author Robert A.M. Stern says "prevented New York from destroying itself.”