Athens And The War On Public Space

Author : Klara Jaya Brekke,Christos Filippidis,Antonis Vradis
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781947447462

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Athens and the War on Public Space by Klara Jaya Brekke,Christos Filippidis,Antonis Vradis Pdf

Sometimes, the maelstrom of a crisis can be captured in a single image. The image of the mundane, barely noticeable movement of an urban dweller as they go about their everyday life. Athens and the War on Public Space commences from images just like this one, collected over a two-year period of research (2012-2014) in Athens during a time of severe financial and political crisis. For the author-curators of this volume, public space became a light-sensitive surface upon which they could begin to map the material imprints of the most structural and violent characteristics of the crisis, and their research spread in different directions, tracking the role of infrastructure and the shifts the financial crisis brought about upon built environments, the violent manifestations of the official anti-migrant policy, the rise of racism, the imposition of the emergency upon public space, and the phenomenology of mass transit.

Author : Klara Jaya Brekke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947447475

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Athens and the War on Public Space by Klara Jaya Brekke Pdf

Author : Associate Professor Stavros Stavrides
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783603305

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Common Space by Associate Professor Stavros Stavrides Pdf

Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons – first, to think beyond the notions of public and private space, and then to understand common space not only as space that is governed by all and remains open to all, but that explicitly expresses, encourages and exemplifies new forms of social relations and of life in common. Through a fascinating, global examination of social housing, self-built urban settlements, street trade and art, occupied space, liberated space and graffiti, Stavrides carefully shows how spaces for commoning are created. Moreover, he explores the connections between processes of spatial transformation and the formation of politicised subjects to reveal the hidden emancipatory potential of contemporary, metropolitan life.

Author : Paulo C. J. Faria
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443866712

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The Post-War Angola by Paulo C. J. Faria Pdf

The quest for a broader reform of the current political regime and for equitable redistribution of Angola's wealth constitutes the most surmountable challenge this country faces since the end of civil war in 2002. State power has become a personalized affair to the extent of perpetuating an entrenched, centralised and overly bureaucratic structure of governance. To understand these dynamics, this book explores the role of the 'public' in post-war Angolan politics. The reality mimics the acti ...

Author : Marta Sequeira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317009245

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Towards a Public Space by Marta Sequeira Pdf

Le Corbusier is well-known for his architectural accomplishments, which have been extensively discussed in literature. Towards a Public Space instead offers a unique analysis of Le Corbusier’s contributions to urban planning. The public spaces in Le Corbusier’s plans are usually considered to break with the past and to have nothing whatsoever in common with the public spaces created before modernism. This view is fostered by both the innovative character of his proposals and by the proliferation in his manifestos of watchwords that mask any evocation of the past, like l’esprit nouveau ("new spirit") and l’architecture de demain ("architecture of tomorrow"). However, if we manage to rid ourselves of certain preconceived ideas, which underpin a somewhat less-than-objective idea of modernity, we find that Le Corbusier's public spaces not only didn't break with the historical past in any abrupt way but actually testified to the continuity of human creation over time. Aimed at academics and students in architecture, architectural history and urban planning, this book fills a gap in the systematic analysis of Le Corbusier’s city scale plans and, specifically, Corbusian public spaces following the Second World War.

Author : David Pritchard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521190336

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War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens by David Pritchard Pdf

Analyses how the democracy of the classical Athenians revolutionized military practices and underwrote their unprecedented commitment to war-making.

Author : Ronald Shiffman,Rick Bell,Lance Jay Brown,Lynne Elizabeth
Publisher : New Village Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781613320099

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Beyond Zuccotti Park by Ronald Shiffman,Rick Bell,Lance Jay Brown,Lynne Elizabeth Pdf

In the wake of the Occupy movement, leading planners and social scientists examine public space today and freedom to assemble.

Author : Zeynep Çelik,Diane Favro,Richard Ingersoll
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520205284

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Streets by Zeynep Çelik,Diane Favro,Richard Ingersoll Pdf

This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents case studies on Kostof's model of urban forms and fabrics. The essays are remarkably diverse: the range includes pre-Columbian Inca settlements, fourteenth-century Cairo, nineteenth-century New Orleans, and twentieth-century Tokyo ... The theme of the volume is that the street presents itself as the basic structuring device of a city's form and also as the locus of its civilization. Each essay is a detailed investigation of a single urban street with unique historical conditions. The authors' shared concern regarding anthropological, political, and technical aspects of street making coalesce into a critical discourse on urban space.

Author : Michail Galanakis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9515582482

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Space Unjust by Michail Galanakis Pdf

Space Unjust is a hopeful book about city space and social diversity. Observing how social discriminations materialize in urban public space, this work addresses the difficulties that urbanites face cohabiting in today's cities. For this living together in difference, negotiation is crucial, and a respect and appreciation for social diversity proves handy in dealing with issues of urban space. After all, it is people, rather than space, who commit injustices. Preconceived ideas, stereotypes and unquestionable norms poison the ground against inclusiveness, multiculturalism, justice and mutual respect. Listening to the unheard, and tracing the invisible, shift our perspectives and enrich our perceptions of the city. The role of design and management processes in shaping our everyday life in the city deserves close observation and analysis from various viewpoints. In Space Unjust, the Helsinki Railway Station and Omonia Square in Athens are brought to life through the presence and testimonies of the Other, in particular the Somali and Albanian diaspora. The comparative element between North and South is not conclusive; it points to the universality of socio-spatial discrimination and the importance of keeping discourse on socio-spatial justice alive.

Author : Nathan T. Arrington
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199369072

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Ashes, Images, and Memories by Nathan T. Arrington Pdf

This study argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties. In a period characterized by war and the threat of civil strife, the nascent democracy claimed the fallen for the city and commemorated them with rituals and images that shaped a civic ideology of struggle and self-sacrifice on behalf of a unified community

Author : John R. Parkinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191619304

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Democracy and Public Space by John R. Parkinson Pdf

In an online, interconnected world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweets. Citizens have become accidental journalists thanks to their handheld devices, politicians are increasingly working online, and the traditional sites of democracy - assemblies, public galleries, and plazas - are becoming less and less relevant with every new technology. And yet, this book argues, such views are leading us to confuse the medium with the message, focusing on electronic transmission when often what cyber citizens transmit is pictures and narratives of real democratic action in physical space. Democratic citizens are embodied, take up space, battle over access to physical resources, and perform democracy on physical stages at least as much as they engage with ideas in virtual space. Combining conceptual analysis with interviews and observation in capital cities on every continent, John Parkinson argues that democracy requires physical public space; that some kinds of space are better for performing some democratic roles than others; and that some of the most valuable kinds of space are under attack in developed democracies. He argues that accidental publics like shoppers and lunchtime crowds are increasingly valued over purposive, active publics, over citizens with a point to make or an argument to listen to. This can be seen not just in the way that traditional protest is regulated, but in the ways that ordinary city streets and parks are managed, even in the design of such quintessentially democratic spaces as legislative assemblies. The book offers an alternative vision for democratic public space, and evaluates 11 cities - from London to Tokyo - against that ideal.

Author : Anthony Maniscalco
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438458434

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Public Spaces, Marketplaces, and the Constitution by Anthony Maniscalco Pdf

Examines how the Supreme Court has banished free expression from shopping malls and other public spaces. In spite of their public attractions and millions of visitors, most shopping malls are now off-limits to free speech and expressive activity. The same may be said about many other public spaces and marketplaces in American cities and suburbs, leaving scholars and other observers to wonder where civic engagement is lawfully permitted in the United States. In Public Spaces, Marketplaces, and the Constitution, Anthony Maniscalco draws on key legal decisions, social theory, and urban history to demonstrate that public spaces have been split apart from First Amendment protections, while the expression of political ideas has been excluded from privately owned, publicly accessible malls. Today, the traditional indoor suburban shopping mall, that icon of modern American capitalism and culture, is being replaced by outdoor retail centers. Yet the law and courts have been slow to catch up. Maniscalco argues that scholars, students, and the public must confront these innovations in commercial design and consumer practices, as well as what they portend for contemporary metropolitan America and its civic spaces.

Author : Luke Lavan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1737 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004423824

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Public Space in the Late Antique City (2 vols.) by Luke Lavan Pdf

This book looks at secular urban space in the Mediterranean city, A.D. 284-650, focusing on places where people from different religious and social group were obliged to mingle. It looks at streets, processions, fora/ agorai, market buildings, and shops.

Author : T. J. Gorringe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107002012

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The Common Good and the Global Emergency by T. J. Gorringe Pdf

Provides a theoretical and political framework of the common good, and applies this to the built environment.

Author : Tony Thwaites,Judith Seaboyer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739177266

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Re-reading Derrida by Tony Thwaites,Judith Seaboyer Pdf

Re-reading Derrida: Perspectives on Mourning and its Hospitalities, edited by Tony Thwaites and Judith Seaboyer, is a uniquely collaborative exploration of the legacies of Jacques Derrida. Scholars from a wide variety of fields respond to his work by addressing such issues as the politics of the memorial, poetry, trauma, film, neoliberalism, the novel, and psychoanalysis––and then, in the processes of revision, they respond to each other.