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

Title
Common ground? : readings and reflections on public space / [edited by] Anthony M. Orum, Zachary P. Neal.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Neal, Zachary P.
  • Orum, Anthony M.
Description
x, 227 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Metropolis and modern life
Uniform Title
Metropolis and modern life.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-219) and index.
Contents
The death and life of great American cities / Jane Jacobs -- The social life of small urban spaces / William H. Whyte -- The character of third world places / Ray Oldenburg -- The moral order of strangers / M. P. Baumgartner -- Street etiquette and street wisdom / Elijah Anderson -- The end of public space? : People's Park, definitions of the public, and democracy / Don Mitchell -- Fortress L.A. / Mike Davis -- Whose culture? : whose city? / Sharon Zukin -- Dispersing the crowd : bonus plazas and the creation of public space / Gregory Smithsimon -- Defying disappearance : cosmopolitan public spaces in Hong Kong / Lisa Law -- Art and the transit experience/creating a sense of purpose : public art and Boston's Orange Line / Cynthia Abramson, Myrna Margulies Breitbart, and Pamela Worden -- The harsh reality : billboard subversion and graffiti / Timothy W. Drescher -- The paradox of public art : democratic space, the avant-garde, and Richard Serra's "Tilted arc" / Caroline Levine -- Those "gorgeous incongruities" : polite politics and public space on the streets of nineteenth century New York / Mona Domosh -- Soundscape and society : Chinese theatre and cultural authenticity in Singapore / Tong Soon Lee -- Relocating public space -- Toolkits for interrogating public space.
ISBN
  • 9780415996891 (hbk.)
  • 0415996899 (hbk.)
  • 9780415997270 (pbk.)
  • 0415997275 (pbk.)
  • 9780203873960 (e-book)
  • 0203873963 (e-book)
LCCN
  • 2009005964
  • 99935578717
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries