Designs on the Public : The Private Lives of New York's Public Spaces

Acknowledgments vii Introduction What Is Public Space? ix 1. Public Space as Public Sphere 1 The Front Steps of New York's City Hall 2. Art or Lunch? 23 Redesigning a Public for Federal Plaza 3. Condemning the Public in the New Times Square 45 4. Bamboozled? 71 Access, Ownership, and the IBM Atrium 5. Targeted Publics and Sony Plaza 93 6. Trump Tower and the Aesthetics of Largesse 117 Epilogue 139 After 9/11 Notes 145 Index 169