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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785050303321

Titolo

Rites of way [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and poetics of public space / / Mark Kingwell and Patrick Turmel, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-53448-3

9786612534485

1-55458-167-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Collana

Studies in international governance

Altri autori (Persone)

KingwellMark <1963->

TurmelPatrick <1976->

Disciplina

307.1/216

Soggetti

Public spaces

Public spaces - Political aspects

Public spaces - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Rites of Way, Paths of Desire; PART I; PART II; PART III; PART IV; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanescent and multidimensional concept that too often escapes scrutiny.     The essays in Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space open up multiple dimensions of the concept from architectural, political, philosophical, and technological points of view. There is some historical