Public Spaces: Interactions, Appropriations, and Conflicts
Public Spaces: Times of Crisis and Change
ISBN: 978-1-78635-464-8, eISBN: 978-1-78635-463-1
Publication date: 5 November 2016
Abstract
The authors begin the chapter with the contemporary discussion on the crisis of public spaces and use a Simmelian regarding to focus on two dimensions of this debate. First, the meaning of the thesis that argues the death of the public areas of large cities. Then, the relevance of the category public spaces, using the diversity of types of spaces and types of interaction that are associated with and try to show why they cannot be reduced and homogeneously represented. Hence, from research conducted in Brazil and Portugal, the authors illustrate the various dimensions of public spaces with examples of conflicts and appropriations from its everyday uses.
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Citation
de Andrade, L.T. and Baptista, L.V. (2016), "Public Spaces: Interactions, Appropriations, and Conflicts", Public Spaces: Times of Crisis and Change (Research in Urban Sociology, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 19-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1047-004220160000015001
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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