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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Miller, Kristine F. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press 2007.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Public spaces > New York (State) > New York.
Architecture and society > New York (State) > New York.
Land use, Urban > New York (State) > New York.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009438744806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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