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Michael Meredith Hilary Sample

Public Spaces, NY

Michael Meredith,  Hilary Sample

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English
Miscellaneous
01 February 2026
Architectural structure & design; City & town planning - architectural aspects
A study of the fraught, often inequitable public spaces of New York City.

There are no perfect public spaces. Public space is constantly changing, shifting, never quite fixed. It is formed by laws, by regulations, by private ownership, and by city management. Public spaces are influenced both by the people who oversee them and by those who use them. And because of these facts, public spaces are never neutral.

In Public Spaces, NY, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample document and analyze Manhattan's parks, streets, community gardens, privately owned public spaces, recreation areas, waterfronts, and cemeteries. Their book seeks to understand their design, construction and management, and provides detailed drawings of both the spaces themselves and speculative illustrations about how the public uses the spaces. By examining how public spaces facilitate or hinder inclusion, and by detailing the conflicts and negotiations they provoke, this book creates a discourse to reimagine the future of public life in the United States' densest city.

A sequel to Vacant Spaces, NY, Public Spaces, NY invites an imagination of a more inclusive, equitable vision for the shared urban spaces we all navigate.

AUTHORS: Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample are the founder-principals of MOS, an internationally renowned architecture firm based in New York. Meredith also teaches as a Professor of Architectural Design and serves as Associate Dean at Princeton University's School of Architecture. Sample is the IDC Professor of Housing Design and Sequence Director of the Core Architecture Studios at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

SELLING POINTS: .

New book by acclaimed New York-based architects and educators Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample .

Features their latest research on legal frameworks, private interests, and community needs shaping urban public spaces .

Highlights how public spaces can both include and exclude and reflects on the larger social and political structures that govern them .

Invites an imagination of a more inclusive, equitable vision for the shared urban spaces we all navigate

400 colour illustrations
By:   ,
Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Country of Publication:   Switzerland
Dimensions:   Height: 230mm,  Width: 155mm, 
ISBN:   9783038604341
ISBN 10:   3038604348
Pages:   632
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Address book
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample are the founder-principals of MOS, an internationally renowned architecture firm based in New York. Meredith also teaches as a Professor of Architectural Design and serves as Associate Dean at Princeton University’s School of Architecture. Sample is the IDC Professor of Housing Design and Sequence Director of the Core Architecture Studios at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

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