Designs on the public : the private lives of New York's public spaces /

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 an...

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Autor principal:	Miller, Kristine F.
Formato:	Libro
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Materias:	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 > Buildings > Public, Commercial & Industrial. ARCHITECTURE > Criticism. Architecture and society. Land use, Urban. Public spaces. New York (State) > New York. Electronic books.

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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.

Designs on the public : the private lives of New York's public spaces /

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