Editors:
- Presents a unique and original multidimensional model of public space analysis
- Includes a foreword by Prof. Roger Caves and contributions from leading experts: Ana Fany A. Carlos, Cristóvão Duarte, Eugenio Queiroga, Lia Beatriz Torraca, Angelo Serpa, and Vera Tângari
- Compiles the classic and state-of-the-art works on the theme
- Features interdisciplinary works by geographers, architects, planners, and a lawyer
- Includes case studies of popular manifestations and appropriations
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About People
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Front Matter
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About Spaces. And People
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or implemented by the various public and private actors in urban public spaces, as well as the daily, or eventual, politics exercised by the organized civil society and by citizens. It presents a collection of contributions about the public space in different theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches. Coming from different disciplines, the authors share an understanding about the need to analyze the uses and appropriations of the city by social subjects and groups as they represent difference and see the city as a place to share life experiences; as such, they argue, through their cases studies, that places of public use should be thought of and understood as concept and as social practice.
As an analytic tool, the book offers a five-dimension model to explore how people relate to daily life activities and confront imposed inequalities in their meeting places, how they engage in individual and collective manifestations and/or how they symbolically appropriate public spaces in face of the late capitalism led by large corporations and globalization. Together the authors seek to contribute to a city of utopia, where all differences can be seen and dealt with in public spaces and where free individuals can present themselves and engage in a vita activa.
Editors and Affiliations
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Programa de Pós-Gradução em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil
Lucia Capanema Alvares
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Programa de Pós Graduação em Geografia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil
Jorge Luiz Barbosa
About the editors
Lucia Capanema-Alvares is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urban Planning of the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Jorge Luiz Barbosa is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Program in Geography of the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
This book includes contributions from leading experts: Ana Fany A. Carlos, Cristóvão Duarte, Eugenio Queiroga, Lia Beatriz Torraca, Angelo Serpa, and Vera Tângari. The foreword was written by Prof. Roger Caves.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Public Spaces
Book Subtitle: From Planned Policies to Everyday Politics (Illustrated with Brazilian Case Studies)
Editors: Lucia Capanema Alvares, Jorge Luiz Barbosa
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74253-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74252-6Published: 15 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08946-7Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74253-3Published: 23 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 160
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Human Geography, Social Policy