Manhattan's Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification

ISBN-13: 9781032056401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 184 str.

Ana Morcillo Pallares

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

Preface: Robert Fishman Introduction: Privacy vs. publicness in an increasingly shared city PART I: Production 1. Goodbye, La Guardia 2. Lever House and Seagram Plaza 3. ´Plaza Bonus´: One Chase Manhattan, 140 Broadway and One Liberty PART II: Revitalization 4. Crisis and opportunity 5. Harlem and Paley Park: collaborative inventions 6. Teardrop Park: reinventing urban grounds PART III: Commodification 7. Battery Park City vs. Gantry Park 8. The logic of the air rights 9. Identity crisis: Lincoln Center and the High Line Conclusions

O autorze

Ana Morcillo Pallarés is a Spanish architect, researcher, and designer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Cieza, Spain. Her research and creative practice critically engage today’s increasing need for more shared space as an ongoing process of continuous agreements among the diverse networks of people who are part of the city. Her work has been featured in the Journal of Architectural Education, VLC Arquitectura, MONU, and the Plan Journal, among others. Ana is an assistant professor at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she initiated her academic career as the 2015 Walter B. Sander Research Fellow. She received her Ph.D. from the Polytechnic School of Madrid and her professional degree in architecture from the Polytechnic School of Valencia.