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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Main Author: Miller, Kristine F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 2007, ©2007
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