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Book SynopsisThis important book engages critically with Lefebvre's spatial theories and challenges recent thinking about the nature of urban space. Research in three iconic post-industrial cities in the UK and North America, explains how urban public spaces, including differential space are socially produced.
Trade Review"This book is a call to arms to begin applying and elaborating spatial theory to old and new situations, as well as valuing an archival approach to urban analysis." Town Planning Review
"This volume is a thoughtful, meticulously researched, and empirically rich account of the character and counter-hegemonic potential of contemporary urban public space. Its strongly argued position on how we should understand space and difference in cities will, no doubt, inspire valuable debate among urbanists.” Eugene McCann, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada
"A terrific book that explores the production of urban space through case studies of three cities, which are brought to life in fascinating and meticulous detail and capture the transition from industrial to post-industrial urban space by drawing on the latest advancements in urban theory." John Roberts, Sociology and Communications, Brunel University London
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Cities and public space; Vancouver: (Re)presenting urban space; Vancouver: Producing urban public space and city transformation; Lowell (Re)presenting urban space; Lowell: Producing urban public space and city transformation; Manchester (Re)presenting urban space; Manchester: Producing urban public space and city transformation; Venturing beyond Lefebvre: Producing differential space; Conclusions: Differential space implications.
