On the plaza : the politics of public space and culture / by Setha M. Low.
Material type: TextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, c2000Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 274 p. : illISBN:- 0292747144 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0292747136 (alk. paper)
- 307.3216098
- F1410. L69 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Pt. I. Introduction -- Ch. 1. Notes from the Field: A Personal Account -- Ch. 2. Public Space and Culture: The Case of the Latin American Plaza -- Pt. II. Histories -- Ch. 3. The History of the Plaza in San Jose, Costa Rica: The Political Symbolism of Public Space -- Ch. 4. The European History of the Plaza: Power Relations and Architectural Interpretation -- Ch. 5. The Indigenous History of the Plaza: The Contested Terrain of Architectural Representations -- Pt. III. Ethnographies -- Ch. 6. Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space -- Ch. 7. Constructing Difference: The Social and Spatial Boundaries of Everyday Life -- Ch. 8. Public Space and Protest: The Plaza as Art and Commodity -- Pt. IV. Conversations -- Ch. 9. The Park and the Plaza in Costa Rican Literature: Imagined Places -- Ch. 10. Conversations on the Plaza: Remembered Places -- Ch. 11. Public Space, Politics, and Democracy -- App. Recent Costa Rican Presidents and Their Terms -- Bibliography -- Index.
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