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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454323103321

Autore

Loukaitou-Sideris Anastasia <1958->

Titolo

Sidewalks [[electronic resource] ] : conflict and negotiation over public space / / Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-24026-9

9786612240263

0-262-25546-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Urban and industrial environments

Altri autori (Persone)

EhrenfeuchtRenia

Disciplina

388.4/11

Soggetti

Public spaces

Sidewalks

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; I History and Evolution; 1 Introduction: The Social, Economic, and Political Life of Sidewalks; 2 Construction and Evolution of Sidewalks; II Display, Opportunity, and Celebration; 3 Promenading and the Performance of Individual Identities; 4 Performing Collective Identities: Parades, Festivals, and Celebrations; III  Disruption and Confrontation; 5 Everyday Politics and the Right to the Sidewalk; 6  Sidewalk as Space of Dissent; IV Competing Uses and Meanings; 7 Sidewalk as Space of Economic Survival; 8 Sidewalk as Shelter; 9 Sidewalk as Urban Forest

V Regulation and Control10 Controlling Danger, Creating Fear; 11 Municipalities in Control; 12 Revisiting Public Space and the Role of Sidewalks; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the evolution of an undervalued urban space and how conflicts over competing uses--from the right to sit to the right to parade--have been negotiated.Urban sidewalks, critical but undervalued public spaces, have been sites for political demonstrations and urban greening, promenades for the wealthy and the well-dressed, and shelterless shelters for the homeless. On sidewalks, decade after decade, urbanites have socialized, paraded, and played, sold their



wares, and observed city life. These many uses often overlap and conflict, and urban residents and planners try to include some and exclude others. In this first book-length analysis of the sidewalk as a distinct public space, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht examine the evolution of the American urban sidewalk and trace conflicts that have arisen over its competing uses. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples as well as case study research and archival data from five cities--Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Seattle--they discuss the characteristics of sidewalks as small urban public spaces, and such related issues as the ambiguous boundaries of their "public" status, contestation over specific uses, control and regulations, and the implications for First Amendment speech and assembly rights.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793878103321

Autore

Enenkel K. A. E.

Titolo

Ambitious antiquities, famous forebears : constructions of a glorious past in the early modern Netherlands and in Europe / / Karl A.E. Enenkel, Konrad A. Ottenheym ; translated by Alexander C. Thomson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-41065-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 pages)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; ; volume307/41

Disciplina

930

Soggetti

Classical antiquities - Study and teaching - Netherlands

Classical antiquities - Political aspects - Netherlands

Classicists - Attitudes

Arts, Classical - Influence

Civilization, Modern - Classical influences

Classical antiquities - Study and teaching - Europe

Classical antiquities - Political aspects - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400-1700, published by Vantilt, Nijmegen (ISBN 9789460043253)"--Title page verso.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-429) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Introduction / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Thinking about the Antiquities of Europe / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Antiquity, a Source of Power and Prestige: the Competition for Antiquities in Early Modern Europe / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Supposed Ancestors / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- The Origin Legends of the European Nations / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- What Is Antiquity? The Early Modern Chronology of History / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- A Malleable Past: On ‘Proof’, Interpretations, Errors and Falsifications / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Humanists and Antiquities in the Northern Low Countries / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- The Batavians as Ancestors in Early Dutch Humanism: Erasmus, Aurelius and Geldenhouwer / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Attempts to Find the Origins of Architecture in the Northern Low Countries: On Romans, Batavians and Giants / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- The Chivalric Past of the Dutch Republic / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- From Chivalric Family Tree to ‘National’ Gallery: the Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, c. 1490–1650 / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch Cities / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Conclusion / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Notes / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Back Matter -- Figures / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Bibliography / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym -- Index / Karl A.E. Enenkel and Konrad A. Ottenheym.

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph studies the constructions of ‘impressive’ historical descent manufactured to create ‘national’, regional, or local antiquities in early modern Europe (1500-1700), especially the Netherlands. This was a period characterised by important political changes and therefore by an increased need for legitimation; a need which was met using historical claims. Literature, scholarship, art and architecture were pivotal media that were used to furnish evidence of the impressively old lineage of states, regions or families. These claims related not only to Classical antiquity (in the generally-known sense) but also to other periods that were regarded as periods of antiquity, such as the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of appropriate “antiquities” and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in Europe, especially in the Northern Low Countries. This book is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400–1700 (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017).