The Politics of Public Space - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415951399 ISBN 13: 9780415951395

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Focusing on public space, this book includes a consideration of the transnational - in the sense of moving people and transformations in the nation/state - to expand the definition of the 'public' and public space.

About this title

Review:

"What makes this edited collection especially valuable, indeed unusual, is its reliance on a wide range of intellectual approaches to public space, from the theoretical to the empirical. Public space today is simply too complicated for anything less, and this volume thankfully satisfies that demand." - Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and author of Privately Owned Public Space

About the Author:

Setha Low is Professor of anthropology and environmental psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Theorizing the City (1999), On the Plaza (2000), Place Attachment (1992), Housing, Culture and Society (1989), Cultural Spaces (2001) and Behind the Gates (Routledge, 2003).
Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Director of CUNY's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He is the author of four major books; Uneven Development (1983 and 1991), The New Urban Frontier (Routledge, 1996), American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (2003), which received The Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography in 2003 and the recently published Endgame of Globalization(Routledge, 2004).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415951399
• ISBN 13: 9780415951395
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 194
• Editor: Low Setha