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Common ground? : readings and reflections on public space / [edited by] Anthony M. Orum, Zachary P. Neal.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Metropolis and modern lifePublisher: New York : Routledge, 2010Description: x, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415996899
  • 9780415996891
  • 0415997275
  • 9780415997270
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1216 22
LOC classification:
  • HT153 .C594 2010
Contents:
Locating public space / Zachary P. Neal -- Part 1. Public Space as Civil Order -- Introduction / Anthony M. Orum -- The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs -- The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces / William H. Whyte -- The Character of Third Places / Ray Oldenberg -- The Moral Order of Strangers / M. P. Baumgartner -- Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom / Elijah Anderson -- Part 2. Public Space as Power and Resistance -- Introduction / Anthony M. Orum -- The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy / Don Mitchell -- Fortress L.A. / Mike Davis -- Whose Culture? Whose City / Sharon Zukin -- Dispersing the Crowd: Bonus Plazas and the Creation of Public Space / Gregory Smithsimon -- Defying Disappearance: Cosmopolitan Public Spaces in Hong Kong / Lisa Law -- Part 3. Public Space as Art, Theatre, and Performance -- Introduction / Anthony M. Orum -- Art and the Transit Experience / Creating a Sense of Purpose: Public Art and Boston's Orange Line / Cynthia Abramson, Myrna Margulies Breitbart, and Pamela Worden -- The Harsh Reality: Billboard Subversion and Graffiti / Timothy W. Drescher -- The Paradox of Public Art: Democratic Space, the Avant-Garde, and Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc" / Caroline Levine -- Those "Gorgeous Incongruities": Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth Century New York / Mona Domosh -- Soundscape and Society: Chinese Theatre and Cultural Authenticity in Singapore / Tong Soon Lee -- Conclusions: -- Relocating Public Space / Zachary P. Neal -- Toolkits for Interrogating Public Space / Anthony Orum and Zachary P. Neal.
Summary: "Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal explore how public space can be a facilitator of civil order, a site for power and resistance, and a stage for art, theatre, and performance. They bring together these frequently unconnected models for understanding public space, collecting classic and contemporary readings that illustrate each, and synthesizing them in a series of original essays. Throughout, they offer questions to provoke discussion, and conclude with thoughts on how these models can be combined by future scholars of public space to yield more comprehensive understanding of how public space works."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-219) and index.

Locating public space / Zachary P. Neal -- Part 1. Public Space as Civil Order -- Introduction / Anthony M. Orum -- The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs -- The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces / William H. Whyte -- The Character of Third Places / Ray Oldenberg -- The Moral Order of Strangers / M. P. Baumgartner -- Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom / Elijah Anderson -- Part 2. Public Space as Power and Resistance -- Introduction / Anthony M. Orum -- The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy / Don Mitchell -- Fortress L.A. / Mike Davis -- Whose Culture? Whose City / Sharon Zukin -- Dispersing the Crowd: Bonus Plazas and the Creation of Public Space / Gregory Smithsimon -- Defying Disappearance: Cosmopolitan Public Spaces in Hong Kong / Lisa Law -- Part 3. Public Space as Art, Theatre, and Performance -- Introduction / Anthony M. Orum -- Art and the Transit Experience / Creating a Sense of Purpose: Public Art and Boston's Orange Line / Cynthia Abramson, Myrna Margulies Breitbart, and Pamela Worden -- The Harsh Reality: Billboard Subversion and Graffiti / Timothy W. Drescher -- The Paradox of Public Art: Democratic Space, the Avant-Garde, and Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc" / Caroline Levine -- Those "Gorgeous Incongruities": Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth Century New York / Mona Domosh -- Soundscape and Society: Chinese Theatre and Cultural Authenticity in Singapore / Tong Soon Lee -- Conclusions: -- Relocating Public Space / Zachary P. Neal -- Toolkits for Interrogating Public Space / Anthony Orum and Zachary P. Neal.

"Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal explore how public space can be a facilitator of civil order, a site for power and resistance, and a stage for art, theatre, and performance. They bring together these frequently unconnected models for understanding public space, collecting classic and contemporary readings that illustrate each, and synthesizing them in a series of original essays. Throughout, they offer questions to provoke discussion, and conclude with thoughts on how these models can be combined by future scholars of public space to yield more comprehensive understanding of how public space works."--Publisher's website.

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