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

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Miller, Kristine F.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Sujets:
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
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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