{"product_id":"public-space-between-reimagination-and-occupation-design-and-the-built-environment-9780367208011","title":"Public Space Between Reimagination and Occupation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublic Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation examines contemporary public space as a result of intense social production reflecting contradictory trends: the long-lasting effects of the global crisis, manifested in supranational trade-offs between political influence, state power and private ownership; and the appearance of global counter-actors, enabled by the expansion of digital communication and networking technologies and rooted into new participatory cultures, easily growing into mobile cultures of protest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe highlighted cases from Europe, Asia, Africa and North America reveal the roots of the pre-crisis processes of redistribution of capital and power as an aspect of the transition from the consumerist past into the post-consumerist present, by tracing the slow growth of social discontent that has led only a few years later to the mobilization of a new kind of self-conscious globally-acting class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edited volume brings together a broad range of interdisciplinary discussions and approaches, providing sociologists, cultural geographers, and urban planning academics and students with an opportunity to explore the various social, cultural, economic and political factors leading to reappropriation and reimagination of the urban commons in the cities within which we live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSvetlana Hristova and Mariusz Czepczyński\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Concepts and Discourses: The Resilient Public Space \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e01. Re-Imagining Civil Society: Conflict and Control in the City’s Public Spaces \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharon Zukin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e02. Public Space in a Global World: After the Spectacle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSvetlana Hristova\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e03. Seeing the Local in Global Cities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerome Krase\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II. Contestations and Rights: Public and Civic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e04. Civic Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities: Urban Movements and the Recover of Public Spaces\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMariusz Czepczyński\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e05. Public Space, Memory and Protest during Post-Socialist Transformation: The Emergence of University Square (Piaţa Universităţii), Bucharest as a space of protest \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCraig Young, Duncan Light and Daniela Dumbrăveanu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e06. Social Characteristic of Squares as Urban Spaces, Ulus and Kizilay Squares in Ankara \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNuray Bayraktar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e07. Order and Heterotopia in an Urban Space: The Case of a Spanish Square \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancisco Adolfo García Jerez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e08. Contested Public Spaces and the Right to the City: The Case of Cairo's Historic Bazaar \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWael Salah Fahmi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III. Management and Governance: Transformation and Control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e09. The Meaning of Public Space in the Context of Space-Time Behaviour in the ‘Network City’: From Socialist to Sociable Public Space \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnastasia Moiseeva, Remon Rooij and Harry Timmermans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. The Restructuring of Urban Public Space in the ‘Baltic Pearl’ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMegan Dixon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Public Green Space in Vienna between Utopia and Political Strategy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilipp Rode and Eva Schwab\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. The normative construction of a (public) urban space through the use of policy instruments: some reflections from northern Italy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichela Semprebon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. Negotiating Public Space in a Shopping Mall \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePavel Pospěch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusions: Rediscovering Public Space Globally\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSvetlana Hristova and Mariusz Czepczyński\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017848389975,"sku":"9780367208011","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367208011.jpg?v=1750774872","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/public-space-between-reimagination-and-occupation-design-and-the-built-environment-9780367208011","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}