Main entry:

Mogilevich, Mariana, author.

Title & Author:

The invention of public space : designing for inclusion in Lindsay's New York / Mariana Mogilevich.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

Description:

xxvi, 204 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The invention of public space -- 1. Space and politics in Lindsay's New York -- 2. Topographies of experience: Jacob Riis Plaza -- 3. Residential territories: Turning strangers into neighbors -- 4. Open space as interface: Vest-Pocket parks -- 5. Pedestrian experiments: Redesigning the street -- 6. Renewal on the waterfront: Metropolitan environments -- Epilogue: The deaths and lives of urban public space.

Summary:

"The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781517905750 hardcover
1517905753 hardcover
9781517905767 paperback
1517905761 paperback
electronic book
9781452963938

Subject:

Public spaces New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Public spaces Social aspects New York History 20th century.
City planning New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Espaces publics New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle.
City planning.
Public spaces.
Public spaces Social aspects.
New York (State) New York.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308564
Call No.: BIB 253934
Status: Available