Urban squares : spatio-temporal studies of design and everyday life in the Öresund region / Mattias Kärrholm (editor).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kärrholm, Mattias, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plazas--Denmark--Copenhagen.

Plazas.

Plazas--Sweden--Malmö.

Public spaces--Sound, The (Denmark and Sweden)--Case studies.

Public spaces.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lund, Sweden : Nordic Academic Press, [2015]

Summary:

Studies of Urban Squares suggests a specific and fresh take on agorology - the study of urban squares. The approach is one of recording everyday life and focusing on different ways to describe and investigate the public life and space of urban squares. The book comprises four empirical case studies of squares focusing especially on the urban material culture and spatio-temporal changes of these squares. The squares are all located in the metropolitan and transnational Öresund region in Denmark and Sweden, a region that has gone through extensive transformations during the last couple of decades. The compilation of cases suggest different ways of addressing spatio-temporal aspects of the everyday life of urban squares, and helps us to see how the everyday life of squares plays an important part in the production of public space.

Contents:

Introduction : an agorology of everyday life / Mattias Kärrholm

The main square revisited : a comparison of daily usage of Stortorget, Malmö, between 1978 and 2013 / Mattias Kärrholm

Discrete architectures : rhythms of public eating in Värnhemstorget in Malmö / Paulina Prieto de la Fuente

Temporal agency and the gradual privatization of a public square : the renewal of Slussplan, Malmö / Gunnar Sandin

The fragmentary demand : Superkilen in Nørrebro / Ida Sandström.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789187675515

918767551X

9789187675508

9187675501