Book Review: The Projects that Shaped New York City's Public Spaces.

Highlighting two of Manhattan's most emblematic public destinations, the author illustrates tensions between the regulatory mechanisms that commodify public space and the inventive design strategies that attempt to offset them. Morcillo Pallarés traces the genealogy of this strategy, praising Manhattan's famous pocket parks, their original designs, and the participatory processes that brought them to life. [Extracted from the article]