Description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"This book is a remarkable window onto a unique moment in the history of New York - and the history of contemporary urban design - when squalor, decline, innovation and opportunity somehow existed simultaneously."
-Robert Fishman"Rivers of ink have gone into tackling the Big Apple from numerous and widely varied critical angles. A new addition to this hermeneutic lineage is by a Michigan-based Spanish scholar, who scans recent production of public space through examples which are halfway between architectural and urban, covering the period from the times of Mies van der Rohe to the High Line. These examples are analyzed by means of sensible texts and photographs, illustrated through analytical drawings rendered by the author, and complemented with conclusions of a critical nature.
-Arquitectura Viva