Urban interstices : the aesthetics and the politics of the in-between / / edited by Andrea Mubi Brighenti

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462979403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-317-00373-X; 1-317-00372-1; 1-315-54880-1; 1-4724-1002-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 un recurso en línea (230 páginas)
• Altri autori (Persone): Mubi BrighentiAndrea
• Disciplina: 307.1216
• Soggetti: Public spaces; City planning; Urbanization; Sociology, Urban; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2013 by Ashgate Pub.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; ; 1 What Sort of a Legal Space is a City?; ; 2 %%t rajectories of Interstitial Landscapeness: A Conceptual Framework for Territorial Imagination and Action; ; 3 Tent Cities: Interstitial Spaces of Survival; ; 4 Spatial Justice in the Lawscape; ; 5 Coming up for Air: Comfort, Conflictand the Air of the Megacity; Automobile Interstices: Driving and theIn-Between Spaces of the City; ; 7 Interstitial Space and the Transformationof Retail Building Types; ; 8 Interim Users in Residual Spaces:An Inquiry Into the Career of a Pier on the Hudson Riverfront9 The Urban Fringe as a Territorial Interstice: On Alpine Suburbs; ; 10 Active Interstices: Urban Informality,the Tourist Gaze and Metamorphosis in South-East Asia; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Bringing together a team of international scholars with an interest in urban transformations, spatial justice and territoriality, this volume questions how the interstice is related to the emerging processes of ; partitioning, enclave-making and zoning, showing how in-between spaces are intimately related to larger flows, networks, territories and boundaries. Illustrated with a range of case studies from places such as the US, Quebec, the UK, Italy, Gaza, Iraq, India, and South-east Asia, the volume analyses the place and function of interstitial locales in both a 'disciplined' urban space and a