Public Space

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-78546-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 1826 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 3402 g

Reihe: Critical Concepts in Built Environment

By closely examining its public spaces, we can decipher the social, cultural and political life of a city. Public space is the arena for individual and group expression; a forum for dialogue, debate, and contestation; a space for conviviality, leisure, performance, and display; a place for economic survival and refuge; a site for the exchange of information and ideas; and a setting for nature. Public space has concerned philosophers, political thinkers, social scientists, legal scholars, planners, and architects and has also intrigued writers, painters, musicians, film-makers, and other artists.

In this new four-volume collection from Routledge, Vikas Mehta brings together the key literature that encompasses the social and political issues in the making and experience of public space. It addresses the complete ecology of public space and the many interrelated issues. The set journeys the vast territory of public space to compile a multidisciplinary selection of materials that offer new as well as traditionally recognized principles of understanding and the making of public space.

Public Space is fully indexed and includes comprehensive introductions, newly written by the editor, which place the collected materials in their historical and intellectual context. It is an essential reference collection and is destined to be valued by scholars and students—as well as policy-makers and practitioners—as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mehta, Vikas

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume I: Theorizing and Contextualizing Public Space

Part 1: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives

Part 2: Defining and Situating

Part 3: Histories

Volume II: Surveying and Appraising Public Space

Part 4: Dying. Declining or Transforming?

Part 5: Types and Typologies

Part 6: Territories and Claims

Part 7: Sensing

Part 8: Studying and Evaluating

Volume III: Owning Public Space

Part 9: Rights, Power and Resistance

Part 10: Managing and Securing

Part 11: Diversity, Conflict and Negotiation

Volume IV: Futures for Public Space

Part 12: Global and Multicultural Perspectives

Part 13: Design Principles

Part 14: Looking Ahead: New Directions, New Meanings