Urban public spaces : from planned policies to everyday politics (illustrated with Brazilian case studies) /: from planned policies to everyday politics (illustrated with Brazilian case studies). ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lucia Capanema Alvares, Jorge Luiz Barbosa, editors.
• Editors: Alvares, Lucia Capanema; Barbosa, Jorge Luiz
• Contents: Intro; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1 A Multidimensional Frame for Analyzing Urban Public Spaces Policies and Politics; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Urban Public Spaces (UPS), Everyday Life, Conflicts, and the Public Sphere; 1.3 Capital, Labor, the State and Their Fractions at Diverse Scalesâ#x80;#x94;A Critical Perspective; 1.4 Urban Life: Symbolic and Identity Aspects, Imaginaries, and Bourdieuâ#x80;#x99;s Habitus; 1.5 Towards a Multidisciplinary Analytical Model; 1.5.1 The Socioeconomic Dimension; 1.5.2 The Sociocultural Dimension; 1.5.3 The Socio-environmental Dimension. 1.5.4 The Politicalâ#x80;#x93;Administrative Dimension1.5.5 The External Dimension; References; About People; 2 The Power of the Body in Public Space: The Urban as a Deprivation of the Right to the City; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 In the First Place, the Body; 2.3 Public Space; 2.4 The Twenty-First Century Urban World as a Source of Deprivation; 2.5 Urban Demonstrations Posing a Challenge to the Analysis; 2.6 The Exteriority of Space Generates New Forms of Alienation in Urban Society; 2.7 From Deprivation to the Right to the City; References. 3 Reinventing Public Spaces: Politics of Oneself and Politics with Many OthersAbstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Politics of Oneself: The Aesthetic of Existence; 3.3 Politics with Many Others: Self-disclosure and Space of Appearance; 3.4 From Public Space to Public Spaces: Actions and Creations; 3.5 Final Considerations; References; 4 A Cornered Democracy: The Echoes of the 2013 Demonstrations in Rio de Janeiro and the Architecture of a Crisis; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Echoes of the 2013 Demonstrations; 4.3 A Cornered Democracy; 4.4 The Age of the Democratic Anthropophagy. 4.5 The Spectacle of the Real and the Dispute of Reality Construction4.6 Conclusion; References; 5 Leisure and Work in Contemporary Urban-Metropolitan Space: Perspectives, Tendencies, and Utopias; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 On Capital-Work/Work-Leisure Relationships in the Contemporary World; 5.2.1 Work and Leisure in the Modern Era: Industrial Society; 5.2.2 Recent Changes to the World of Work; 5.3 Telework and Creative Leisure: The Amplification of Free Time; 5.4 Popular Entrepreneurship in Bahia: No Time for Leisure; 5.5 Final Considerations; References; About Spaces. And People. 6 Open Public Spaces and the Vita ActivaAbstract; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Public Sphere, Public Spaces, and Open Spaces; 6.3 Questions Concerning Systems of Open Public Spaces in Large and Medium Brazilian Cities; 6.4 Open Space Systems: Complexities and Contradictions; References; 7 Open Space Systems in Rio de Janeiro: The Public and Private Spheres Reflected in the Urban Landscape; Abstract; 7.1 Introducing Concepts; 7.2 The Environmental Question and the Pressure for Housing; 7.3 The Social Construction of Landscapes: A Theme and Its Issues.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 307.1/216; Geography; Public spaces; City planning; Urban policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban; City planning; Public spaces; Urban policy; Social Science -- Human Geography; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Human geography; Central government policies; Cultural geography; Human Geography; Social policy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319742533; 3319742531
• Related ISBNs: 9783319742526; 3319742523
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 1, 2018).
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