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Author: Mariana Mogilevich
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
ISBN: 9781517905750
ISBN 10: 1517905753
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 04 August 2020
Audience:
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Thanks to the author's original research and acute analysis, this an important book, not just for the history of 20th-century New York but also for the history of urban America more broadly. --CHOCIE Design and planning of public space play an important role in creating the physical conditions for imagining and experiencing democratic citizenship. But rather than settling on a conclusion whether Lindsay, or later Bloomberg, failed in achieving this goal, Mogilevich leaves us with encouragement to continue the experiment. --Journal of Urban Design
Deeply researched and wonderfully written, The Invention of Public Space will inspire a re-thinking of a concept-public space-and a place and time-New York City in the 1960s and '70s-that we thought we knew well. Mariana Mogilevich captures the unique excitement of that moment when the top-down framework of modernist urban design and planning had collapsed and a new world of open, inclusive, and participatory design seemed to be beginning. -Robert Fishman, Taubman College of Architecture + Planning, University of Michigan Mariana Mogilevich avoids the expected judgements about the spaces she surveys-how 'public' were they, really?-and shows how the idea of 'public space,' with all its paradoxes and exclusions, was itself devised as a response to urban crisis in 1960s New York City. Pithy, clever, and wise, The Invention of Public Space is a much-needed reminder that ideas about self and society are at the heart of the cultural history of urbanism. -Samuel Zipp, coeditor of Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs Thanks to the author's original research and acute analysis, this an important book, not just for the history of 20th-century New York but also for the history of urban America more broadly. -CHOICE Design and planning of public space play an important role in creating the physical conditions for imagining and experiencing democratic citizenship. But rather than settling on a conclusion whether Lindsay, or later Bloomberg, failed in achieving this goal, Mogilevich leaves us with encouragement to continue the experiment. -Journal of Urban Design Mogilevich successfully explores how design projects driven by high-minded ideals of spatial politics impacted or even contributed to ongoing racial injustice in the city, and often overlooked the experiences of communities whose lives designers and urbanists were seeking to improve. -ARLIS/NA This timely book squashes naivete and inspires, leaving the reader energized and better prepared to pursue spatial justice anew. -The Architect's Newspaper
Author Information
Mariana Mogilevich is a historian of architecture and urbanism and editor-in-chief of the Urban Omnibus, the online publication of the Architectural League of New York.
