Common ground? : readings and reflections on public space /
[edited by] Anthony M. Orum, Zachary P. Neal.
- x, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Metropolis and modern life .
- Metropolis and modern life. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-219) and index.
Locating public space / Public Space as Civil Order -- Introduction / The Death and Life of Great American Cities / The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces / The Character of Third Places / The Moral Order of Strangers / Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom / Public Space as Power and Resistance -- Introduction / The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy / Fortress L.A. / Whose Culture? Whose City / Dispersing the Crowd: Bonus Plazas and the Creation of Public Space / Defying Disappearance: Cosmopolitan Public Spaces in Hong Kong / Public Space as Art, Theatre, and Performance -- Introduction / Art and the Transit Experience / Creating a Sense of Purpose: Public Art and Boston's Orange Line / The Harsh Reality: Billboard Subversion and Graffiti / The Paradox of Public Art: Democratic Space, the Avant-Garde, and Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc" / Those "Gorgeous Incongruities": Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth Century New York / Soundscape and Society: Chinese Theatre and Cultural Authenticity in Singapore / Conclusions: -- Relocating Public Space / Toolkits for Interrogating Public Space / Zachary P. Neal -- Anthony M. Orum -- Jane Jacobs -- William H. Whyte -- Ray Oldenberg -- M. P. Baumgartner -- Elijah Anderson -- Anthony M. Orum -- Don Mitchell -- Mike Davis -- Sharon Zukin -- Gregory Smithsimon -- Lisa Law -- Anthony M. Orum -- Cynthia Abramson, Myrna Margulies Breitbart, and Pamela Worden -- Timothy W. Drescher -- Caroline Levine -- Mona Domosh -- Tong Soon Lee -- Zachary P. Neal -- Anthony Orum and Zachary P. Neal. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.
"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.
0415996899 9780415996891 0415997275 9780415997270
2009005964
Public spaces--Social aspects City planning--Social aspects