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Author Miller, Kristine F.

Title Designs on the public : the private lives of New York's public spaces / Kristine F. Miller
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 180 pages) : illustrations, map
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-168) and index
Notes English
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Subject Public spaces -- New York (State) -- New York
Architecture and society -- New York (State) -- New York
Land use, Urban -- New York (State) -- New York
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism.
Architecture and society
Land use, Urban
Public spaces
New York (State) -- New York
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816653768
0816653763