Title & Author:

The future of public space / editor: Amy Gill ; contributors: Allison Arieff, MIchelle Nihjuis, Jaron Lanier, Rachel Monroe, China Miéville, Christopher DeWolf, Ben Davis, Sarah Fecht ; [art work], Lawrence Weiner.

Publication:

New York, NY : Metropolis Books, [2017]
©2017

Description:

135 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 17 cm.

Series:

SOM thinkers

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Just enough / Allison Arieff -- How the parks of tomorrow will be different / Michelle Nijhuis -- Why is the city square square? / Jaron Lanier -- Eyes in the sky: being watched in the rural West / Rachel Monroe -- Final report / China Miéville -- Sensory navigation in Hong Kong / Christpher DeWolf -- The future of public art in five phases / Ben Davis -- The public in outer space / Sarah Fecht -- Partners' statement.

Summary:

Routine discussions on public space typically omit a gamut of possibilities ripe for critical discussion. This book, the latest in the 'SOM Thinkers' series, aims to address these questions. Here, Rachel Monroe challenges American preconceptions of the wild, wide-open West by addressing issues of surveillance; the series? first fictional piece, by China Miéville, covers an under-examined area of public space under the guise of detective fiction; a study of public art by Ben Davis sheds light on the myths and stigmas that have accrued to public art, also asking what it can become; Christopher DeWolf shares a sensory navigation trip through a directionless Hong Kong; at a tea ceremony in Nevada's Red Rock Desert, Terry Tempest Williams and a group of neighbors reflect on the plight of public lands when their politics of place is shaken; while Jaron Lanier meditates on the idea of public space online, linking the prevailing, free-for-all model of the internet with a characteristically American yearning for freedom and repudiation of rules and structure.

ISBN:

9781942884163 (paperback)
1942884168 (paperback)

Subject:

Public spaces Social aspects.
Espaces publics Aspect social.
Public spaces.

Added entries:

Gill, Amy, editor.
Arieff, Allison, contributor.
Nijhuis, Michelle, contributor.
Lanier, Jaron, contributor.
Monroe, Rachel, contributor.
Miéville, China, contributor.
DeWolf, Christopher, contributor.
Davis, Ben, 1979- contributor.
Fecht, Sarah, contributor.
Weiner, Lawrence, artist.
SOM thinkers.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 299507
Call No.: BIB 245628
Status: External loan