Urban Public Spaces From Planned Policies to Everyday Politics (Illustrated with Brazilian Case Studies) /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Capanema Alvares, Lucia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Barbosa, Jorge Luiz (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: The Urban Book Series,
• Θέματα: Cultural geography.; Urban geography.; Human geography.; Social policy.; Cultural Geography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Human Geography.; Social Policy.

 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 presents a collection of contributions about the public space in different theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches. Coming from different disciplines, the authors share an understanding about the need to analyze the uses and appropriations of the city by social subjects and groups as they represent difference and see the city as a place to share life experiences; as such, they argue, through their cases studies, that places of public use should be thought of and understood as concept and as social practice. As an analytic tool, the book offers a five-dimension model to explore how people relate to daily life activities and confront imposed inequalities in their meeting places, how they engage in individual and collective manifestations and/or how they symbolically appropriate public spaces in face of the late capitalism led by large corporations and globalization. Together the authors seek to contribute to a city of utopia, where all differences can be seen and dealt with in public spaces and where free individuals can present themselves and engage in a vita activa. 

 A multi-dimensional frame for analyzing Urban Public Spaces policies and politics -- The power of the body in public space: Urban as a deprivation of the right to the city -- Reinventing public spaces: Politics of oneself and politics with many others -- A Cornered Democracy: the echoes of the 2013 demonstrations in Rio de Janeiro and the architecture of a crisis -- Leisure and work in contemporary urban-metropolitan space: Perspectives, tendencies and utopias -- Open Public Spaces and the vita activa -- Open Space Systems in Rio de Janeiro: the public and private spheres reflected in the urban landscape -- The "re-invention" of the city through the favelas -- In the guise of a (global) comprehension: a multidimensional analysis of Urban Public Spaces through selected authors.