{"product_id":"on-the-plaza-9780292747142","title":"On the Plaza","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is one of the best accounts of a place's history and meaning I have ever read. Low's work should be widely used in courses in architecture, urban design, planning, landscape architecture, and historic preservation, as well as Latin American studies and anthropology. What a wonderful book!\" Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studies, Yale University \"Combining ethnography, history, and spatial theory, this interdisciplinary book brings the Latin American plaza to life as a spatial expression of culture and politics. A paean to the plaza as democratic public space, it is as absorbing as it is unconventional.\" Neil Smith, Department of Geography and Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Illustrations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Preface \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part I: Introduction \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter One: Notes from the Field: A Personal Account \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Two: Public Space and Culture: The Case of the Latin American Plaza \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part II: Histories \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Three: The History of the Plaza in San José, Costa Rica: The Political Symbolism of Public Space \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Four: The European History of the Plaza: Power Relations and Architectural Interpretation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Five: The Indigenous History of the Plaza: The Contested Terrain of Architectural Representations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part III: Ethnographies \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Six: Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Seven: Constructing Difference: The Social and Spatial Boundaries of Everyday Life \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Eight: Public Space and Protest: The Plaza as Art and Commodity \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part IV: Conversations \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Nine: The Park and the Plaza in Costa Rican Literature: Imagined Places \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Ten: Conversations on the Plaza: Remembered Places \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter Eleven: Public Space, Politics, and Democracy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix: Recent Costa Rican Presidents and Their Terms \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400872403287,"sku":"9780292747142","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292747142.jpg?v=1730471803","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-the-plaza-9780292747142","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}