Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City ExperienceHailed 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. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
DESIGN OPERATION AND ENFORCEMENT | 21 |
RECORD | 43 |
RESEARCH | 61 |
LOWER MANHATTAN | 75 |
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN | 111 |
UPPER MANHATTAN | 241 |
BROOKLYN AND QUEENS | 297 |
| 318 | |
Photography Credits | 336 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
1916 Zoning Resolution 24 hours AMENITIES 57th Street ACCESS:& 24 hours as-of-right benches Bicycle Parking block arcade block connection block galleria Broadway Building Arcade BUILDING ARCHITECT City approval City Planning Commission covered pedestrian space District elevated plaza Emery Roth entrance Fifth Avenue floor area ratio front Ibid landscaping Lighting yes Litter linear feet including located Madison Avenue Midtown open air café Owings & Merrill Paley Park Park Avenue Philip Birnbaum planters Plaque/Sign yes Plaza Marginal primary space privately owned public PROJECT DATA PUBLIC SPACE DESIGNER PUBLIC SPACE DESIGNER/BUILDING recent site visit record of City residential plaza Retail Frontage Roth & Sons Section sf ACCESS sf ACCESS:& 24 sf PLAZA side of East sidewalk widening Sixth SPACE DESIGNER/BUILDING ARCHITECT square feet subway Third Avenue through-block tower Trees on Street Trees within Space urban plaza USABLE RESIDUAL SPACE users wall Water Feature yes Litter Receptacles zoning lot Zoning Resolution
Popular passages
Page 319 - BUILDING HEIGHT, BULK, AND FORM How Zoning Can Be Used as a Protection against Uneconomic Types of Buildings on High-cost Land BY GEORGE B.
References to this book
Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy Rutherford H. Platt No preview available - 2004 |
Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property Nicholas K. Blomley No preview available - 2004 |