Is it truly the "end" of public space? This handbook presents evidence that the answer is "no". In cities in different parts of the world, people still use public space to pursue activities of their choice.
The book is divided into seven sections. The first section presents three emerging types of public space. Each of the subsequent five sections focuses on a type of activity: recreation, commerce, protest, living and celebration. These sections are international in scope, presenting cases of activities in Brazil, China, Colombia, DR Congo, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Libya, Taiwan, Turkey and the U.S. The closing section, composed of three chapters, presents research methods for studying public space.
Graduate students, faculty members and researchers in social science, architecture, landscape architecture, geography and urban design will find the book useful for understanding, studying and designing urban public space.
Author(s): Karen A. Franck, Te-Sheng Huang
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 402
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
1 Introduction: The Use, Design and Management of Urban Public Space
Part I: Emerging Types of Public Spaces
2 Ecological Restoration Parks: An Emerging Type of Public Space in China
3 City Beaches: Enlivening Marginal Spaces in Germany
4 Pedestrian Plazas: A New Type of Neighborhood Space in New York City
Part II: Recreation
5 New Opportunities for Women's Recreation in Public Space in Tripoli, Libya
6 Cruising in Urban Parks: Gay Intimacy in New York and Boston
7 Private Sound Environments in Urban Public Space: Headphone Use in Parks in New York
8 Parkour: Loosening Public Urban Space in Finland
Part III: Commerce
9 What Commerce Can Do: The Case of Streets in the US
10 Little Damascus: A Thriving Commercial Passageway in Sixth of October City, Egypt
11 Using and Negotiating Public Space: Street Vending in Taiwan
12 Getting a Spot on the Street: Street Vendors' Access to Public Space in Bogotá, Colombia
13 Food Truck Rallies: Communal Eating in Public Space in the U.S.
Part IV: Protest
14 The Life and Death of Tahrir Square: From Protest Platform to Roundabout
15 City of Protest: From Exterior to Interior Public Space in Hong Kong
16 Displaying and Contesting State Power: The Story of Taksim Square and Gezi Park, Istanbul
Part V: Living
17 Inhabiting the City Without Shelter in Santa Cruz, California
18 Living on the Streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
19 Using Public Space to Escape Violence and Social Exclusion in São Paulo, Brazil
Part VI: Celebration
20 Parades in Manhattan: Transforming Public Space
21 Space and Sound: Celebrating and Protesting in Berlin
22 Joining the Party in Downtown Brooklyn
Part VII: Research Methods for Studying Public Space
23 Recording Diverse Uses of a City's Public Spaces
24 Using Archival Sources to Study Mass Behavior in Public Space
25 What is the Question? Answer the Question
Index
