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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Design and the Built Environment |
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Design and the built environment series.
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| Contents |
Public Space- Front Cover; Public Space; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Notes; References; PART 1: Concepts and discourses: the resilient public space; Chapter 1: Reimagining civil society: conflict and control in the city's public spaces; Privatization of publicly owned space; Early privatization in the 1990s; Advanced privatization in the 2010s; Privately owned public plazas; The question of social order; Scales of social order; Final observations; Notes; References |
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Chapter 2: Public space in a global world: after the spectacleIntroduction: public space on the volcano of civilization; Relativized space in a global world: the crawling financialization; Global mega-players, de-etatized states, privatized society; New common good: the concerns of the Risk Society; Public space and its transfiguration in the electronic maidan; Tahrir as a proto-model of a transnational public space; Elaborated protest strategy; The protesters and their social demands: regaining symbolic power; Transnationalization of protests and of their public spaces; After the spectacle |
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NotesReferences; Chapter 3: Seeing the local in global cities; Introduction; Global cities; Visual sociology; Insights from the visual field; Summary; Notes; References; PART 2: Contestations and rights: public and civic; Chapter 4: Civic landscapes of post-socialist cities: urban movements and the recovery of public spaces; Public spaces and civic landscapes; Post-socialist erosion of the civic landscape; Spaces of political manifestations or reclaiming civic landscapes; Better urban places or towards participative and discursive place-making; Conclusions; References |
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Chapter 5: Public space, memory and protest during post-socialist transformation: the emergence of Piaţa Universităţii (University Square), Bucharest, as a space of protestIntroduction; The origins of Piaţa Universităţii and the square in the communist period; Piaţa Universităţii as a space of protest and remembrance after 1989; Piaţa Universităţii and protest beyond the revolution and Mineriadă; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Social characteristics of squares as urban spaces: Ulus and Kızılay squares in Ankara; Introduction; Ankara, capital city of the republic; Atatürk Boulevard |
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Ulus SquareKızılay Square; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Order and heterotopia in an urban space: the case of a Spanish square; The importance of urban space for the social life; A square between stigma and heterotopia; Order and disorder in the square; Conclusions; Note; References; Chapter 8: Contested public spaces and the right to the city: the case of Cairo's historic bazaar; Introduction; Conservation, gentrification and the right to the city; The historic city, context and urban problems; Critique of conservation and rehabilitation plans within historic Cairo |
| Summary |
"Public Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation examines contemporary public space as a result of intense social production reflecting contradictory trends: the long-lasting effects of the global crisis, manifested in supranational trade-offs between political influence, state power and private ownership; and the appearance of global counter-actors, enabled by the expansion of digital communication and networking technologies and rooted into new participatory cultures, easily growing into mobile cultures of protest. The highlighted cases from Europe, Asia, Africa and North America reveal the roots of the pre-crisis processes of redistribution of capital and power as an aspect of the transition from the consumerist past into the post-consumerist present, by tracing the slow growth of social discontent that has led only a few years later to the mobilization of a new kind of self-conscious globally-acting class. This edited volume brings together a broad range of interdisciplinary discussions and approaches, providing sociologists, cultural geographers, and urban planning academics and students with an opportunity to explore the various social, cultural, economic and political factors leading to reappropriation and reimagination of the urban commons in the cities within which we live."--Provided by publisher |
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Public spaces.
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Public spaces
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Czepczy?ski, Mariusz
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| ISBN |
9781315603018 |
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1315603012 |
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9781317073291 |
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1317073290 |
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9781317073307 |
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1317073304 |
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