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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المؤلف الرئيسي: Miller, Kristine F.
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب
اللغة:English
منشور في: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
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الملخص: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.
وصف مادي:1 online resource (xxii, 180 p.) : ill., map.
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-168) and index.
ردمك:9780816653768 (electronic bk.)
0816653763 (electronic bk.)