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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966163203321

Autore

Miles Malcolm

Titolo

Art, space and the city : public art and urban futures / / Malcolm Miles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997

ISBN

1-134-77101-0

1-134-77102-9

1-280-17414-5

9786610174140

0-203-97311-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 266 p. : ill

Disciplina

711/.4

Soggetti

City planning

Public art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 THE CITY -- chapter 2 SPACE, REPRESENTATION AND GENDER -- chapter 3 THE MONUMENT -- chapter 4 THE CONTRADICTIONS OF PUBLIC ART -- chapter 5 ART IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT -- chapter 6 ART AND METROPOLITAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT -- chapter 7 ART IN HEALTH SERVICES -- chapter 8 ART AS A SOCIAL PROCESS -- chapter 9 CONVIVIAL CITIES.

Sommario/riassunto

Public art - the making, management and mediation of art outside its conventional location in museums and galleries, and the livable city - a concept involving user-centred strategies for urban planning and design, are both socially produced but have emerged from different fields and tend to be discussed in isolation. This book applies a range of critical perspectives which have emerged from different disciplines - art criticism, urban design, urban sociology, geography and critical theory - to examine the practice of art for urban public spaces, seeing public art from positions outside those of the art world to ask how it might contribute to possible urban futures. Exploring the diversity of urban politics, the functions of public space and its relation to the structures of power, the roles of professionals and users in the construction of the city, the gendering of space and the ways in which



space and citizen are represented, the book explains how these issues are as relevant to architecture, urban design and urban planning as they are to public art. Drawing on a wealth of images from across the UK and Europe and the USA, in particular, the author questions the effectiveness of public art in achieving more convivial urban environments, whilst retaining the idea that imagining possible futures is as much part of a democratic society as using public space.