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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454868903321

Titolo

Common ground? : readings and reflections on public space / / [edited by] Anthony M. Orum, Zachary P. Neal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-25754-X

1-135-25755-8

1-282-25655-6

9786612256554

0-203-87396-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Metropolis and modern life

Altri autori (Persone)

NealZachary P

OrumAnthony M

Disciplina

307.1/216

Soggetti

Public spaces - Social aspects

City planning - Social aspects

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 (pages [212]-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS LIST; Locating Public Space; PART 1: Public Space as Civil Order; Introduction; The Death and Life of Great American Cities; The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces; The Character of Third Places; The Moral Order of Strangers; Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom; PART 2: Public Space as Power and Resistance; Introduction; The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy; Fortress L.A.; Whose Culture? Whose City?; Dispersing the Crowd: Bonus Plazas and the Creation of Public Space

Defying Disappearance: Cosmopolitan Public Spaces in Hong KongPART 3: Public Space as Art, Theatre, and Performance; Introduction; Art and the Transit Experience/Creating a Sense of Purpose: Public Art and Boston's Orange Line; The Harsh Reality: Billboard Subversion and Graffiti; The Paradox of Public Art: Democratic Space, the Avant-Garde, and Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc"; Those "Gorgeous Incongruities": Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth Century New



York; Soundscape and Society: Chinese Theatre and Cultural Authenticity in Singapore; Conclusions

Relocating Public SpaceToolkits for Interrogating Public Space; REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal explore how public space can be a facilitator of civil order, a site for power and resistance, and a stage for art, theatre, and performance. They bring together these frequently unconnected models for understanding public space, collecting classic and contemporary readings that illustrate each, a

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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004374737407536

Autore

Genovesi, Antonio <1713-1769>

Titolo

Delle lezioni di commercio, o sia Di economia civile ; con Elementi del commercio / Antonio Genovesi ; a cura di Maria Luisa Perna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli : nella sede dell'Istituto, 2005

ISBN

9788897820222

Descrizione fisica

937 p. ; 25 cm

Collana

Economisti meridionali

Altri autori (Persone)

Perna, Maria Luisa

Disciplina

330.1

Soggetti

Economia - Teorie

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Elementi del commercio