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Designs on the public : the private lives of New York's public spaces / Kristine F. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Kristine F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public spaces--New York (State)--New York.
- Public spaces.
- Architecture and society--New York (State)--New York.
- Architecture and society.
- Land use, Urban--New York (State)--New York.
- Land use, Urban.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Kristine F. Miller delves into six of New York's public spaces, including Times Square, Trump Tower, and Sony Plaza, to trace how design influences their complicated existence. Design is, in Miller's view, complicit in regulation of public spaces in New York City to exclude undesirables and privilege commercial interests, and in this work she shows how design can reactivate public space and public life.
- Contents:
- Public space as public sphere : the front steps of New York's City Hall
- Art or lunch? redesigning a public for Federal Plaza
- Condemning the public in the new Times Square
- Bamboozled? access, ownership, and the IBM Atrium
- Targeted publics and Sony Plaza
- Trump Tower and the aesthetics of largesse
- Epilogue : after 9/11.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5376-3
- OCLC:
- 476125741
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