TY  - BOOK
AU  - Low,Setha M.
TI  - On the plaza: the politics of public space and culture 
SN  - 0292747144 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - F1410. L69 2000
U1  - 307.3216098 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Plazas
KW  - Latin America
KW  - History
KW  - Costa Rica
KW  - San José
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - San José (Costa Rica)
N1  - 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
ER  -