Description
Is it truly the "end" of public space? This handbook presents evidence that the answer is "no". In cities in different parts of the world, people still use public space to pursue activities of their choice.
The book is divided into seven sections. The first section presents three emerging types of public space. Each of the subsequent five sections focuses on a type of activity: recreation, commerce, protest, living and celebration. These sections are international in scope, presenting cases of activities in Brazil, China, Colombia, DR Congo, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Libya, Taiwan, Turkey and the U.S. The closing section, composed of three chapters, presents research methods for studying public space.
Graduate students, faculty members and researchers in social science, architecture, landscape architecture, geography and urban design will find the book useful for understanding, studying and designing urban public space.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Use, Design and Management of Urban Public Space
Karen A. Franck and Te-Sheng Huang
Part I: Emerging Types of Public Spaces
2. Ecological Restoration Parks: An Emerging Type of Public Space in China
Han Yan
3. City Beaches: Enlivening Marginal Spaces in Germany
Quentin Stevens
4. Pedestrian Plazas: A New Type of Neighborhood Space in New York City
Hanife Vardi-Topal
Part II: Recreation
5. New Opportunities for Women’s Recreation in Tripoli, Libya
Fathia Elmenghawi
6. Cruising in Urban Parks: Gay Intimacy in Public Space in New York and Boston
John Bezemes
7. Private Sound Environments in Urban Public Space: Headphone Use in Parks in New York
Chathurthi S. De Silva
8. Parkour: Loosening Public Urban Space in Finland
Lieven Ameel and Sirpa Tani
Part III: Commerce
9. What Commerce Can Do: The Case of Streets in the US
Vikas Mehta
10. Little Damascus: A Thriving Commercial Passageway in Sixth of October City, Egypt
Amira Mostafa Badran
11. Using and Negotiating Public Space: Street Vending in Taiwan
Te-Sheng Huang
12. Getting a Spot on the Street: Street Vendors’ Access to Public Space in Bogotá, Colombia
Ana Maria Vargas
13. Food Truck Rallies: Communal Eating in Public Space in the U.S.
John Jones
Part IV: Protest
14. The Life and Death of Tahrir Square: From Protest Platform to Roundabout
Mariam Abdelazim
15. City of Protest: From Exterior to Interior Public Space in Hong Kong
Tom Verebes
16. Displaying and Contesting State Power: The Story of Taksim Square and Gezi Park, Istanbul
Zehra Betul Atasoy
Part V: Living
17. Inhabiting the City without Shelter in Santa Cruz, California
Cory Parker
18. Living on the Streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Repulic of Congo
Kristien Geenen
19. Using Public Space to Escape Violence and Social Exclusion in São Paulo, Brazil
Daniel Jupp Kina and Lorraine van Blerk
Part VI: Celebration
20. Parades in Manhattan: Transforming Public Space
Karen A. Franck
21. Spaces and Sound: Celebrating and Protesting in Berlin
Banu Çiçek Tülü
22. Joining the Party in Downtown Brooklyn
Maryam Hosseini
Part VII: Research Methods for Studying Public Space
23. Recording Diverse Uses of a City’s Public Spaces
Sverre Bjerkeset anad Jonny Aspen
24. Using Archival Sources to Study Mass Behavior in Public Space
Johann Sagan
25. What is the Question? Answer the Question.
Karen A. Franck and Te-Sheng Huang
