Screen LibraryManhattan's public spaces : production, revitalization, commodification /
"Manhattan's Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification analyzes a series of architectural works and their contribution to New York's public space over the past few decades. By exploring a mix of urban mechanisms, supportive frameworks, legal systems and planning guide...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge critical studies in urbanism and the city
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"Manhattan's Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification analyzes a series of architectural works and their contribution to New York's public space over the past few decades. By exploring a mix of urban mechanisms, supportive frameworks, legal systems and planning guidelines for the transformation of the city's collective realm, the text frames Manhattan as a controversial landscape of interests and concerns to authorities, communities, and, very importantly, developers. The production, revitalization and commodification of Manhattan's public spaces, as a phenomenon and as a subject of study, also highlights the vicissitudes of the reconciliation of the many different agents, which are part of the process. The challenge of the book does not only lie in the analysis of good design, but more importantly, in how to understand the functional mechanisms for the current trends in the production of space for public use. A complex framework of actors, governance and market monopolies, which invites the reader to participate in the debate of how these interventions contribute, or not, to an inclusive environment anchored in the existing built fabric. Manhattan's Public Spaces invites reflection on the revitalization of the city's shared space from all dimensions. Beautifully illustrated in black and white, with over 50 images, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in architecture, planning and urban design"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781032056401 1032056401 9781032056418 103205641X |
| Index Number: | HT168 |
| CLC: | TU984.712 |
| Call Number: | TU984.712/M833 |
| Contents: | Part I. Production in the making of openness, incentive mechanisms and corporate capitalism -- Goodbye, La Guardia -- Lever house and Seagram Plaza -- 'Plaza bonus': One Chase Manhattan, 140 Broadway and One Liberty -- Part II. Revitalization participatory processes and the critical engagement with recreational demands -- Crisis and opportunity -- Harlem and Paley Park: collaborative inventions -- Teardrop Park: reinventing urban grounds -- Part III. Commodification constituting identities and antagonistic encounters within the neoliberal city -- Battery Park city vs. Gantry Park -- The logic of the air rights -- Identity crisis: Lincoln Center and the High Line. |