Main entry:

Demo polis. English.

Title & Author:

Demo polis : the right to public space / edited by Barbara Hoidn ; translations, Lisa Rosenblatt, Yuma Shinohara, Wilfried Wang.

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2016]
©2016

Description:

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, March 12-May 29, 2016.
"The University of Texas at Austin. School of Architecture"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Demo:polis: the right to public space / Barbara Hoidn -- On virtual and real public space / Andrew Keen -- The constitution of public space / Cordelia Polinna -- The politics of public space : London and New York compared / Ricky Burdett -- Urban design through public space / Susan Chin -- Making new parks in North America : new needs, new challenges, new opportunities / Michael van Valkenburgh -- Strolling through public space : remarks on the city and the public realm in the early twenty-first century / Florian Matzner -- Art in public space as a metaphor for the city / Renata Stih -- The glasnost of public participation / Jörn Walter -- Participation as a strategy for public consultation : the instant city / Regula Lüscher -- Knitting the processes : the art of cooperation in complex planning processes / Frauke Burgdorff -- Public space : a question of structures / Bernhard Schneider -- Poetics of space / Blanca Zúñiga Alegría -- Public space in our minds / Claus Carbon -- Enabling DEMO:POLIS / Ruth Dalton, Christoph Hölscher, Stefan Müller Arisona.

Summary:

"Demo:polis" is a sociological and urbanist research undertaking comprehensively examining what 'public space' means today. After two decades of appropriation of the internet's anonymous, virtual public space, people are once again taking to streets and squares for their concern. Public space today is no longer merely a large square in the heart of town: it is traffic hub, advertising medium, multi-functional space, or simply a place to hang out. It can be a combat zone for various interest groups at one time and a place for individual self-projection and collective experience at another, but also a strong manifestation of social segregation and neglect. The DEMO:POLIS project has resulted in this new book. It features a vast range of exemplary public spaces and presents controversial artistic and urban design interventions that demonstrate protests against and criticisms of the status quo. Richly illustrated, it also presents various artistic and scientific approaches and working principles, offering manifold design options for the public space. The book is published to coincide with an exhibition at Berlin's Akademie der Kunste in spring 2016.

ISBN:

9783038600053 (English edition ; hd. bd.)
3038600059 (English edition ; hd. bd.)

Subject:

Public spaces Exhibitions.
City planning Exhibitions.
Architecture and society Exhibitions.
Espaces publics Expositions.
Architecture et société Expositions.
Architecture and society.
City planning.
Public spaces.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Hoidn, Barbara, 1959- editor.
Rosenblatt, Lisa (Translator), translator.
Shinohara, Yuma, translator.
Wang, Wilfried, translator.
Akademie der Künste (Berlin, Germany), host institution.
University of Texas at Austin. School of Architecture, sponsoring body.

Demopolis

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293359
Call No.: BIB 238203
Status: Available