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