Urban public spaces from planned policies to everyday politics (illustrated with Brazilian case studies) /
This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or implemented by the various public and private actors in urban public spaces, as well as the daily, or eventual, politics exercised by the organized civil society and by citizens. It p...
| Other Authors: | Alvares, Lucia Capanema,, Barbosa, Jorge Luiz,, SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
[2018]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Urban book series.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1 A Multidimensional Frame for Analyzing Urban Public Spaces Policies and Politics; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Urban Public Spaces (UPS), Everyday Life, Conflicts, and the Public Sphere; 1.3 Capital, Labor, the State and Their Fractions at Diverse Scalesâ#x80;#x94;A Critical Perspective; 1.4 Urban Life: Symbolic and Identity Aspects, Imaginaries, and Bourdieuâ#x80;#x99;s Habitus; 1.5 Towards a Multidisciplinary Analytical Model; 1.5.1 The Socioeconomic Dimension; 1.5.2 The Sociocultural Dimension; 1.5.3 The Socio-environmental Dimension.
- 1.5.4 The Politicalâ#x80;#x93;Administrative Dimension1.5.5 The External Dimension; References; About People; 2 The Power of the Body in Public Space: The Urban as a Deprivation of the Right to the City; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 In the First Place, the Body; 2.3 Public Space; 2.4 The Twenty-First Century Urban World as a Source of Deprivation; 2.5 Urban Demonstrations Posing a Challenge to the Analysis; 2.6 The Exteriority of Space Generates New Forms of Alienation in Urban Society; 2.7 From Deprivation to the Right to the City; References.
- 3 Reinventing Public Spaces: Politics of Oneself and Politics with Many OthersAbstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Politics of Oneself: The Aesthetic of Existence; 3.3 Politics with Many Others: Self-disclosure and Space of Appearance; 3.4 From Public Space to Public Spaces: Actions and Creations; 3.5 Final Considerations; References; 4 A Cornered Democracy: The Echoes of the 2013 Demonstrations in Rio de Janeiro and the Architecture of a Crisis; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Echoes of the 2013 Demonstrations; 4.3 A Cornered Democracy; 4.4 The Age of the Democratic Anthropophagy.
- 4.5 The Spectacle of the Real and the Dispute of Reality Construction4.6 Conclusion; References; 5 Leisure and Work in Contemporary Urban-Metropolitan Space: Perspectives, Tendencies, and Utopias; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 On Capital-Work/Work-Leisure Relationships in the Contemporary World; 5.2.1 Work and Leisure in the Modern Era: Industrial Society; 5.2.2 Recent Changes to the World of Work; 5.3 Telework and Creative Leisure: The Amplification of Free Time; 5.4 Popular Entrepreneurship in Bahia: No Time for Leisure; 5.5 Final Considerations; References; About Spaces. And People.
- 6 Open Public Spaces and the Vita ActivaAbstract; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Public Sphere, Public Spaces, and Open Spaces; 6.3 Questions Concerning Systems of Open Public Spaces in Large and Medium Brazilian Cities; 6.4 Open Space Systems: Complexities and Contradictions; References; 7 Open Space Systems in Rio de Janeiro: The Public and Private Spheres Reflected in the Urban Landscape; Abstract; 7.1 Introducing Concepts; 7.2 The Environmental Question and the Pressure for Housing; 7.3 The Social Construction of Landscapes: A Theme and Its Issues.