(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865509)
In Indigenous Activism in the Midwest: Refusal, Resurgence, and Resisting Settler Colonialism, Margret McCue-Enser examines how Minnesota Indigenous activists use public memory sites to interrupt and challenge the dominant narrative of place....Lasīt vairāk
A New Index for Public Space: After Distancing offers readers a re-evaluation of the notion of publicness as a lens to unpack the complexity of urban space. A new index is proposed to reconstitute the promises and the predicaments of publ...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers readers a re-evaluation of the notion of publicness as a lens to unpack the complexity of urban space. A new index is proposed to reconstitute the promises and the predicaments of public space to better prepare for the contempor...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides an analysis of urban development in Vietnam with a focus on activities carried out by ordinary people. Using Hanoi as a case study, the book offers a rich ethnographic account of people-led development emphasizing spatial practice...Lasīt vairāk
This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social transformations across different comm...Lasīt vairāk
Tools to build communication between architects and urbanists with the community towards co-producing knowledge and spaces. How can collaborative methods of planning and design act as tools to develop insurgent urbanism? Juliana Soares Gome...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Orca Book Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781459838383)
Part of the nonfiction Orca Timeline series for middle grade readers, this illustrated book examines parks, gardens and public green spaces throughout history and shares why its important to protect them for future generations. Illustrations....Lasīt vairāk
For architecture and urban space to have relevance in the 21st Century, we cannot merely reignite the approaches of thought and design that were operative in the last century. This is despite, or because of, the nexus between politics and space of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Apr-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625348333)
Trees are not just natural resources; they are also cultural ones that present unique challenges and opportunities for public historians and local preservation activities. Trees can serve as important objects of memory, recalling past triumphs or tr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625348326)
Trees are not just natural resources; they are also cultural ones that present unique challenges and opportunities for public historians. The fourteen new, previously unpublished essays in this volume explore the many ways that trees are an integral...Lasīt vairāk
Explores the relationship between built environments, collective identities and political agency and the potential conflicts arising from competing or alternative social uses of the space, with case studies from ancient Egypt, Neo-Assyrian Nimrud and...Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores the transformation of public space and administrative activities in Republican and Imperial Rome through an interdisciplinary examination of the topography of power. This volume explores the transformation of pu...Lasīt vairāk
The book presents a novel examination of urban commons. This book presents a novel examination of urban commons which provides a robust base for education initiatives and future public policy guidance on the protection and use of ur...Lasīt vairāk
Patterns of Threshold Spaces in the Historical City of Jeddah explores the meaning of threshold spaces and investigates the relationship between the public spaces and residential units in the historical city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, whi...Lasīt vairāk
Social media has been established as a central feature of the modern world and a propagator of contemporary culture. Political anthropology is employed as a method to understand digital fascination in the modern world. The theory of the void is ut...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democratic practices. Thriving public spaces also enhance creativity, health, urban resilience, and environme...Lasīt vairāk
As the world strives to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, this book deftly examines the capacity and potential of public space design to tackle key issues related to climate change, violence, safety, law, cultural and gender incl...Lasīt vairāk
This handbook further develops the theoretical and methodological knowledge base of urban design and engage with the question of what urban design can be with a primary focus on its research. In addition to the introduction chapter, this handboo...Lasīt vairāk
Sara Brandellero, Kamilia Krakowska Rodrigues, Derek Pardue
Sērija : Cities and Cultures
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789048558742)
- combination of the focus on the night and migration. Publication in English adds to its global reach. - opening up a dialogue between more policy-oriented and infrastructural perspectives as well as focus on cultural narratives to offer a more comp...Lasīt vairāk
A critical exploration of independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining alternative with the passing of time.Grounded in empirical research, Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutio...Lasīt vairāk
This is a book about urban complexity - how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin cities, where the many different parts (people, streets, industry sectors) interact to form an evolving...Lasīt vairāk
This handbook presents evidence that there has not been an end of public space and its varied use. In cities in different parts of the world people still use public space to pursue activities of their choice, including for recreation, commerce, prote...Lasīt vairāk
Governance and Public Space in the Australian City is a rich and evocative examination of the production and use of public spaces in Australian cities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Using Brisbane as a case study, i...Lasīt vairāk
Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing. In this book we explore the ways in which gardens and gardening prevent illness and resto...Lasīt vairāk
Through analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorizes artists responses to global inequities as cultural manifestations of counter-revanchism in diverse urban centers....Lasīt vairāk
innovative, accessible, a dialogue between cultural and media theory and creative practices, developing an urban perspective on this growing and transforming domain within contemporary screen culture. This book offers a discussion of the screens, ins...Lasīt vairāk
This timely book explores the spatial and social injustices within our streets, malls, schools, and public institutions. Taken-for-granted acts like going for a walk, seeing an exhibition with a friend, and going to school are, for people with dis...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores how female agency is defined and exists on both Mediterranean shores. It focuses on the role of women believers in the processes of transformation of political contexts of the North African and Euro-Mediterranean area, and on th...Lasīt vairāk
Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data. This multidisciplinary collection of 36 chapters provides the reader with an extensive resource of case studies and ways of th...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Oct-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807181898)
In 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a seemingly all-white swimming pool, she started...Lasīt vairāk
Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary) this volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmati...Lasīt vairāk
This volume fills a gap in the literature on planning and the development of queer spaces. It highlights the resistance there has been within the planning profession to incorporate gay and lesbian concerns into the planning mainstream. Bringing toget...Lasīt vairāk
The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of the future.The author argues that the future is a set of directional and normative ideas...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the hypothesis that public space - if conceptualized, imagined, and shaped at the metropolitan scale, through innovative territorial design approaches - offers the possibility to interconnect and integrate various systems in searc...Lasīt vairāk
The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings they get in and of urban spaces. Based on ethnographic fieldwork of everyday life in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, it focuses on the atmospheric power of people, place...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores how everyday practices in public space (sitting, playing, walking, etc.) challenge the increase of top-down control in the global city. Public Everyday Space focuses on post-Olympic Barcelonaa time of unprecedented lev...Lasīt vairāk
The idea of citizenship is formed through a dynamic and flexible set of relationships that go beyond a sequence of formal rights and duties. It is recurring in everyday social contexts-in practices that play out in the real world, in the everyday ex...Lasīt vairāk
