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Privately Owned Public Space : The New York City Experience
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Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as a "juicy little time bomb of a book", Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience examines for the first time, New York City's 39-year mixed experience with the production of more than 500 plazas, parks, and atriums located on private property yet by law accessible to and usable by the public.
Until now, comprehensive, systematic knowledge about this vast collection of public spaces has not existed, either for experts or members of the public. To remedy this gap, Harvard University professor Jerold S. Kayden, The New York City Department of City Planning, and The Municipal Art Society of New York have joined forces to research and write Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience. Through words, photographs, scaled site plans, maps, and analysis of newly assembled data, they examine history, law, design, and use of the city's privately owned public spaces. Each of the more than 500 spaces is individually discussed to provide far-reaching comparative information about this unique category of public space.
In reading this book, designers, planners, lawyers, and academics will gain greater understanding about the possibilities and problems inherent in the design, management, and enforcement of privately owned public space. Public officials, private owners, and civic group representatives will learn more about their roles in ensuring public access and vitality of such spaces. Individuals will discover where New York City's public spaces are located and what amenities they offer. Everyone will comprehend more completely the contribution that privately owned public space can make toward open and attractive cities in which all individuals have access to a diversity of public places.
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The descriptions of the spaces in Part Two combine a critical examination of the architecture and design with a practical discussion of how well these spaces work or, in many cases, don't work. It would be hard to find a more lucid and balanced discussion of what happens when politicians attempt to direct the course of urban development.
Part One (about 20% of the book) describes the history, law, and expeirence with publicly owned private spaces. This book is divided into two parts.
You would be wrong. Part Two describes and evaluates each of New York's 503 spaces.
You might think that a discussion of the law and history of publicly owned private spaces might appeal only to city planners, developers and lawyers. Anyone interested in public policy will find this discussion illuminating.
Anyone who lives in or visits New York City could spend a fascinating day visiting these spaces with this book in hand.
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