Main entry:

Miller, Kristine F.

Title & Author:

Designs on the public : the private lives of New York's public spaces / Kristine F. Miller.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.

Description:

xxii, 180 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-168) and index.
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:

Miller chronicles controversies in the histories of New York locations, including Time Square, Trump Tower, and the Sony Plaza. The story of each location reveals that public space is not a concrete or fixed reality, but rather a constantly changing situation open to the forces of law, corporations, bureucracy and government.

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ISBN:

9780816649099 (hc ; alk. paper)
081664909X (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816649105 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816649103 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Public spaces New York (State) New York.
Architecture and society New York (State) New York.
Land use, Urban New York (State) New York.
Espaces publics New York (État) New York.
Architecture et société New York (État) New York.
Utilisation urbaine du sol New York (État) New York.
Architecture and society
Land use, Urban
Public spaces
Architektur
Ästhetik
Öffentlicher Raum
New York (State) New York
New York, NY
New York <NY>

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254925
Call No.: BIB 185000
Status: Available