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May 11, 2022 · The papers show that urban public space is a political performance (see Figure 1), a practiced choreography, mediated by state and society through webs of affective and embodied processes and practices. The literal spectacle of Modi’s government demanding that the citizens of Kolkata “bang vessels” to show that it, too, is a world/global ...
- Inquiries into public space practices, meanings and values
Two fundamentally opposing driving forces that act in public...
- Inquiries into public space practices, meanings and values
public space supports spatial practices that undermine political performance, particularly democratic performance. My concern is that such definitions play into the hands of those who
- John Richard Parkinson
- 2013
Apr 20, 2022 · We therefore propose a bibliographic review that deals with the political nature of public spaces, the dimension of contestation within public sociability, the advent of virtual public spaces, and the geography of cosmopolitan encounters.
Dec 1, 2022 · In their attempt to “wedge open a more multifaceted politics of public space,” public space was differentiated from private space in four dimensions: rules of access, the source and nature of control over entry, individual and collective behavior sanctioned in specific spaces, and rules of use.
The principles and importance of public urban space have often been considered to be a stabilising force for managing the ‘good’ and generating ‘healthy’ societies – a way of measuring how government institutions conduct public affairs, and manage public resources in a democratic way.
Oct 10, 2018 · Two fundamentally opposing driving forces that act in public space can be identifed: one ephemeral and performative, the other, stabilizing and solidifying. Public space is at once the outcome of conflicts and negotiations, and (potentially at least) protective of these negotiations through spatiality.
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. The book argues that democracy depends on the availability of physical, public space, even in our allegedly digital world. It also argues that the availability of space for democratic performance is under threat, and that by overlooking the need for such space — or ...
