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Record Nr.

UNINA9910389555203321

Autore

Miller Kristine F

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8166-5376-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

711/.55097471

Soggetti

Public spaces - New York (State) - New York

Architecture and society - New York (State) - New York

Land use, Urban - New York (State) - New York

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.