The East Midtown Rezoning Draft Environmental Impact Statement was released on April 19 by the New York City Department of City Planning. There is an extensive discussion of open space, including privately owned public spaces, in the study. Take a look
See the New York World article about temporary uses in POPS and the City’s Water Street POPS initiative.
Watch videos of ten hours (or less) of Harvard Conference on Public Space chaired by Professor Jerold Kayden.
Click here to see videos of the Harvard Graduate School of Design conference on public space, entitled “Putting Public Space in its Place,” held March 7-8, 2013.
Water Street POPS programming is proposed by City.
The New York City Department of City Planning has proposed a zoning text amendment, in the Special Lower Manhattan District, that would allow events and a wide range of temporary amenities to occupy an existing POPS on and near Water Street as-of-right until January 1, 2014. Find out more about this proposed zoning text amendment at the <a href="http://www vente de viagra en ligne.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/water_street_pops/index.shtml”>NYCDCP website.
Here is an interesting article about uses of privately owned public spaces.
Nancy Slotnick writes about finding love in a public space.
Announcing “Putting Public Space in its Place,” a Harvard Conference on Public Space, March 7 and 8, 2013
In a digital age, people will reflect upon 2011 as the year in which physical public space reclaimed its lofty status in the public sphere. From Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park, physical public space reminded us of its multiple ambitions and capabilities for accommodating consequential political activities as well as everyday leisurely pursuits. Put plainly, place still matters. This conference at Harvard University will focus on physical (corporeal, material, tangible) public space. Physical public space comes in many flavors: publicly owned parks, streets, and sidewalks, privately owned public spaces, privately managed public parks, and temporary spaces that appear and disappear within a parking spot, under a bridge, in a surface parking lot, or anywhere else.
The production of public space simultaneously implicates and transcends technical decisions with regard to design, financing, and management considerations. Who should design public space? Should public spaces be designed at all? How should success of a public space be measured? Can the private sector participate in public space provision without a loss of “publicness”? Do achievements of democracy and equality depend on ample availability of public space? Can public space make a meaningful contribution to solving the world’s environmental problems, including storm water flooding? Are there universals of public space that define its use and appearance no matter where the space is located? Are temporary or informal public spaces a fad or breakthrough? Can theory inform, or better inform, practice? Public space scholars, practitioners, and activists will discuss and debate these and other questions along with an engaged audience. Attendance at the conference is free and open to the public.
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Read “Meet Me at the Plaza,” New York Times, October 19, 2011
Here is the link: www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/opinion/zuccotti-park-and-the-private-plaza-problem.html
An unintended but potentially significant benefit emerging from the Occupy Wall Street movement is the spotlight that the protesters camped out in Zuccotti Park have cast on the city’s privately owned public spaces.