Common ground? : readings and reflections on public space / [edited by] Anthony M. Orum, Zachary P. Neal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neal, Zachary P.

Orum, Anthony M.

Series:

Metropolis and modern life.

Metropolis and modern life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public spaces--Social aspects.

Public spaces.

City planning--Social aspects.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal explore how public space can be a facilitator of civil order, a site for power and resistance, and a stage for art, theatre, and performance. They bring together these frequently unconnected models for understanding public space, collecting classic and contemporary readings that illustrate each, a

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS LIST; Locating Public Space; PART 1: Public Space as Civil Order; Introduction; The Death and Life of Great American Cities; The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces; The Character of Third Places; The Moral Order of Strangers; Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom; PART 2: Public Space as Power and Resistance; Introduction; The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy; Fortress L.A.; Whose Culture? Whose City?; Dispersing the Crowd: Bonus Plazas and the Creation of Public Space

Defying Disappearance: Cosmopolitan Public Spaces in Hong KongPART 3: Public Space as Art, Theatre, and Performance; Introduction; Art and the Transit Experience/Creating a Sense of Purpose: Public Art and Boston's Orange Line; The Harsh Reality: Billboard Subversion and Graffiti; The Paradox of Public Art: Democratic Space, the Avant-Garde, and Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc"; Those "Gorgeous Incongruities": Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth Century New York; Soundscape and Society: Chinese Theatre and Cultural Authenticity in Singapore; Conclusions

Relocating Public SpaceToolkits for Interrogating Public Space; REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-219) and index.

ISBN:

1-135-25754-X

1-135-25755-8

1-282-25655-6

9786612256554

0-203-87396-3

9780203873960

OCLC:

444447879