Research Catalog

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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Details

Additional Authors

• Orum, Anthony M.
• Neal, Zachary P.

Description

x, 227 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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, and synthesizing them in a series of original essays. Throughout, they offer questions to provoke discussion, and conclude with thoughts on how these models can be combined by future scholars of public space to yield more comprehensive understanding of how public space works. -- Publisher description from http://www.routledge.com (Oct. 3, 2011).

Series Statement

Metropolis and modern life

Uniform Title

Metropolis and modern life

Subject

• Public spaces > Social aspects
• City planning > Social aspects

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

OCLC

• 259266351
• SCSB-12914212

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library