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UNINA9910785050303321 |
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Titolo |
Rites of way [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and poetics of public space / / Mark Kingwell and Patrick Turmel, editors |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-53448-3 |
9786612534485 |
1-55458-167-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (211 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in international governance |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KingwellMark <1963-> |
TurmelPatrick <1976-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public spaces |
Public spaces - Political aspects |
Public spaces - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Rites of Way, Paths of Desire; PART I; PART II; PART III; PART IV; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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