Public Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation

Public Space

Between Reimagination and Occupation
 
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ISBN13:9780367208011
ISBN10:0367208016
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:200 pages
Size:246x174 mm
Weight:453 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 18 Illustrations, black & white; 2 Halftones, black & white; 13 Line drawings, black & white; 3 Tables, black & white
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Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of social scientists from around the world, this volume presents a broad spectrum of approaches and discourses on contemporary public spaces.

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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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction


Svetlana Hristova and Mariusz Czepczyński


Part I. Concepts and Discourses: The Resilient Public Space


01. Re
-Imagining Civil Society: Conflict and Control in the City?s Public Spaces


Sharon Zukin


02. Public Space in a Global World: After the Spectacle


Svetlana Hristova


03. Seeing the Local in Global Cities


Jerome Krase


Part II. Contestations and Rights: Public and Civic


04. Civic Landscapes of Post
-Socialist Cities: Urban Movements and the Recover of Public Spaces


Mariusz Czepczyński


05. Public Space, Memory and Protest during Post
-Socialist Transformation: The Emergence of University Square (Piaţa Universităţii), Bucharest as a space of protest


Craig Young, Duncan Light and Daniela Dumbrăveanu


06. Social Characteristic of Squares as Urban Spaces, Ulus and Kizilay Squares in Ankara


Nuray Bayraktar


07. Order and Heterotopia in an Urban Space: The Case of a Spanish Square


Francisco Adolfo García Jerez


08. Contested Public Spaces and the Right to the City: The Case of Cairo's Historic Bazaar


Wael Salah Fahmi


Part III. Management and Governance: Transformation and Control


09. The Meaning of Public Space in the Context of Space
-Time Behaviour in the ?Network City?: From Socialist to Sociable Public Space


Anastasia Moiseeva, Remon Rooij and Harry Timmermans


10. The Restructuring of Urban Public Space in the ?Baltic Pearl?


Megan Dixon


11. Public Green Space in Vienna between Utopia and Political Strategy


Philipp Rode and Eva Schwab


12. The normative construction of a (public) urban space through the use of policy instruments: some reflections from northern Italy


Michela Semprebon


13. Negotiating Public Space in a Shopping Mall


Pavel Pospěch


Conclusions: Rediscovering Public Space Globally


Svetlana Hristova and Mariusz Czepczyński


Note on Contributors


Index