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1 online resource (403 p.) |
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Routledge International Handbooks Ser |
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Routledge International Handbooks Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: The Use, Design and Management of Urban Public Space -- Part I: Emerging Types of Public Spaces -- 2 Ecological Restoration Parks: An Emerging Type of Public Space in China -- 3 City Beaches: Enlivening Marginal Spaces in Germany -- 4 Pedestrian Plazas: A New Type of Neighborhood Space in New York City -- Part II: Recreation -- 5 New Opportunities for Women's Recreation in Public Space in Tripoli, Libya -- 6 Cruising in Urban Parks: Gay Intimacy in New York and Boston |
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7 Private Sound Environments in Urban Public Space: Headphone Use in Parks in New York -- 8 Parkour: Loosening Public Urban Space in Finland -- Part III: Commerce -- 9 What Commerce Can Do: The Case of Streets in the US -- 10 Little Damascus: A Thriving Commercial Passageway in Sixth of October City, Egypt -- 11 Using and Negotiating Public Space: Street Vending in Taiwan -- 12 Getting a Spot on the Street: Street Vendors' Access to Public Space in Bogotá, Colombia -- 13 Food Truck Rallies: Communal Eating in Public Space in the U.S. -- Part IV: Protest |
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14 The Life and Death of Tahrir Square: From Protest Platform to Roundabout -- 15 City of Protest: From Exterior to Interior Public Space in Hong Kong -- 16 Displaying and Contesting State Power: The Story of Taksim Square and Gezi Park, Istanbul -- Part V: Living -- 17 Inhabiting the City Without Shelter in Santa Cruz, California -- 18 Living on the Streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo -- 19 Using Public Space to Escape Violence and Social Exclusion in São Paulo, Brazil -- Part VI: Celebration -- 20 Parades in Manhattan: Transforming Public Space |
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21 Space and Sound: Celebrating and Protesting in Berlin -- 22 Joining the Party in Downtown Brooklyn -- Part VII: Research Methods for Studying Public Space -- 23 Recording Diverse Uses of a City's Public Spaces -- 24 Using Archival Sources to Study Mass Behavior in Public Space -- 25 What is the Question? Answer the Question -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Huang, Te-Sheng
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| ISBN |
9781000850109 |
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1000850102 |
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