Title & Author:

Public space and relational perspectives : new challenges for architecture and planning / edited by Chiara Tornaghi and Sabine Knierbein.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Description:

xx, 219 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge research in planning and urban design

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Relational public space : new challengs for architecture and planning education -- Conceptual challenges : re-addressing public space in a relational perspective (The relational ontology of public space and action-oriented pedagogy in action ; dilemmas of professional ethics and social justice ; Public space as relational counter space : scholarly minefield or epistemological opportunity?) -- Practical challenges : exploring innovative tools in teaching architecture and planning (Creating mobile media and social change? ; A gaming layer entwined into the everyday life of public spaces ; Playfully creating public spaces of opportunity) -- Research challenges : innovating curricular by learning from lives space(Public spaes, experience and conflict : the cases of Helsinki and Tallinn ; cutlural inteventions in urban public spaces and performative planning : insights from shrinking cities in Eastern Germany -- From classrooms to learning landscapes : new socio-spatial imaginaries of learning and learning spaces ; Educational challenges.

Summary:

"Traditional approaches to space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses and ignoring its ever-changing meanings, contested or challenged uses, and the fact that is an outcome of contextual and on-going dynamics between social actors, their cultures, and power relations. The key role of space in determining the structures of opportunities for social action, the fluidity of its social meaning and the changing degree of "publicness" of a space remains a highly neglected field of academic inquiry and professional practice. As Lefebvre identified, there are segmented and segmenting approaches to analysis and conceptualisation of space among (and within) academic disciplines, but particularly in architecture, planning and the social sciences. Four decades later, these dilemmas are still relevant. The editors believe that there is need and potential to further develop pedagogical tools that enable a more systematic reading of the micro-scale of everyday life, with its rhythms and fluidity of meanings"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780415821575 (hardback)
0415821576 (hardback)
(ebook)
9781315750729
9781317613008 (ePub ebook)
9781317613015 (PDF ebook)
9781317612995 (Mobipocket ebook)

Subject:

Public spaces.
City planning.
Espaces publics.
ARCHITECTURE Urban & Land Use Planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy City Planning & Urban Development.
Architektur
Planung
Stadtplanung
Öffentlicher Raum

Added entries:

Tornaghi, Chiara, editor.
Knierbein, Sabine, 1977- editor.
Routledge research in planning and urban design.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289642
Call No.: BIB 232223
Status: Available