The book "Manhattan`s public spaces" is structured in three parts or large chapters: Production, Revitalization and Commodification, through which she analyzes a series of urban or architectural cases and their contribution to the public space of New York in recent decades, exploring a mixture of urban mechanisms, legal systems and planning on the transformation of the city.
The author understands the public space of Manhattan as a phenomenon and a subject of study, in which the reconciliation of various agents is necessary, without which the processes of creation and transformation are not understood. The challenge lies not only in the analysis of good projects but also in how to understand the mechanisms of the production of space destined for a specific use. The book recognizes a complex network of rulers, actors and market monopolies that invite the reader to participate in the debate on how these interventions contribute or not to an inclusive environment in the structures already built.
It is a study work that Ana began with her doctoral thesis and that is updated in this book, giving a new, interesting and fresh look at especially relevant topics that deserve special attention, such as Commodification or as the author expresses "constituting identities and antagonistic encounters within the neoliberal city" through three study elements: Battery Park City vs. Gantry Park, the logic of air rights and the identity crisis: with Lincoln Center and the High Line.
The book also contains an interesting set of photographic documentation and is magnificently illustrated with more than 50 black and white images (axonometric models of the case studies), made in collaboration with the architect Eduardo Mediero and the architecture student Evan Parness.
The author understands the public space of Manhattan as a phenomenon and a subject of study, in which the reconciliation of various agents is necessary, without which the processes of creation and transformation are not understood. The challenge lies not only in the analysis of good projects but also in how to understand the mechanisms of the production of space destined for a specific use. The book recognizes a complex network of rulers, actors and market monopolies that invite the reader to participate in the debate on how these interventions contribute or not to an inclusive environment in the structures already built.
It is a study work that Ana began with her doctoral thesis and that is updated in this book, giving a new, interesting and fresh look at especially relevant topics that deserve special attention, such as Commodification or as the author expresses "constituting identities and antagonistic encounters within the neoliberal city" through three study elements: Battery Park City vs. Gantry Park, the logic of air rights and the identity crisis: with Lincoln Center and the High Line.
The book also contains an interesting set of photographic documentation and is magnificently illustrated with more than 50 black and white images (axonometric models of the case studies), made in collaboration with the architect Eduardo Mediero and the architecture student Evan Parness.
