Full Description
This book explores the importance of freedom and liberalism in the context of socialities, individualities and materialities. The authors provide a highly unusual and innovative blending of concepts about space and landscape through a deeply theoretical exploration of liberalism.
Liberalism is often problematized in contemporary discussions with regard to gentrification, environmental problems and inequality. In contrast, this book refers to a liberalism that maximizes life chances in the context of dealing with spaces. A connection between freedom and space, based on liberal ideas, provides a much needed theoretical intervention in the fields of social and spatial sciences.
Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Before It Really Starts.-3. Of Differentiations and Contextualizations.- 4. Current Social and Spatial Developments.- 5. The Return of the Utopian and the Restrictions of Landscape.- 6. Contours of a Handling of Space from the Perspective of a Liberalism That Maximizes Life-Chances- 7. Summary.
