Experience and Conflict: The Production of Urban Space

Experience and Conflict: The Production of Urban Space
Author: Panu Lehtovuori
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351937782

When designing, planning and building urban spaces, many contradictory and conflicting actors, practices and agendas coexist. This book propounds that, at present, this process is conducted in an artificial reality, 'Concept City', characterized by a simplified and outdated conception of space. It provides a constructive critique of the concepts, underlying the practices of planning and architecture and, in order to facilitate more dynamic, inclusive and subtle practices, it formulates a new theory about space in general and public urban space in particular. The central notions in this theory are temporality, experiment and conflict, which are grounded on empirical observations in Helsinki, Manchester and Berlin. While the book contextualizes Lefebvre's ideas on urban planning and architecture, it is in no way limited to Lefebvrean discourse, but allows insights to new theoretical work, including that of Finnish and Swedish authors. In doing so, it suggests and develops exciting new approaches and tools leading to 'experiential urbanism'.

Exploring the Production of Urban Space

Exploring the Production of Urban Space
Author: Leary-Owhin, Michael Edema
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2016-02-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447305752

The ideas of Henri Lefebvre on the production of urban space have become increasingly useful for understanding worldwide post-industrial city transformation. This important book uses new international comparative research to engage critically with Lefebvre’s spatial theories and challenge recent thinking about the nature of urban space. Meticulous research in Vancouver, Lowell MA and Manchester, England, explains how urban public spaces, including differential space, are contested and socially produced. Spatial coalitions, counter-representations and counterprojects are seen as vital elements in such processes. The book contributes critically to the post-industrial city comparative analysis literature. It provides an accessible guide for those who care about cities, public space, city planning and urban policy. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of urban: geography, planning, policy, politics, regeneration and sociology. It will also be relevant for politicians, policy makers and urban activists.

Urban Space and Cityscapes

Urban Space and Cityscapes
Author: Christoph Lindner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2006-04-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134212429

From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Singapore to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this interdisciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of 'cityscapes' in modern and contemporary culture. With specially-commissioned essays from the fields of cultural theory, architecture, film, literature, visual art and urban geography, it offers fresh insight into the increasingly complex relationship between urban space, cultural production and everyday life. This volume draws on critical urban studies and moves beyond familiar cultural representations of the city by considering urban planning and architecture. Organized under three inter-related themes - image, text and form - essay topics range from the examination of cyberpunk skylines, pagan urbanism and the cinema of urban disaster, to the analysis of iconic city landmarks such as the twin towers, the London Eye and the Judisches Museum Berlin. Covering a diverse range of cities, including Berlin, Chicago, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Paris, and Venice, this fantastic resource for students, scholars and researchers alike, works expertly at the intersections of visual, material, and literary culture.

Experience and Conflict

Experience and Conflict
Author: Panu Lehtovuori
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN:

Tiivistelmä: Kokemus ja konflikti : julkisen kaupunkitilan tuottamisen dialektiikka Helsingin uusien tapahtumapaikkojen valossa 1993-2003.

Spatial Tensions in Urban Design

Spatial Tensions in Urban Design
Author: Ianira Vassallo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030840832

This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts. Even though violent conflicts have transformed cities during the XX century, it is nowadays possible to identify the phenomenon of “Tensions” as a specific contemporary both social and spatial urban changes catalyst. Through a collection of essays from various disciplines focusing on international case studies—from India to Europe to Latin America— the publication explores the multifaceted concept of “spatial tensions” as a lens for better understanding contemporary urban transformations. While tensions often depend on spatial dispositives and superstructures, they also offer a powerful key for design practices and strategies.

The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces

The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces
Author: Jens Kaae Fisker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2018-10-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1351596640

Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confronted with. Labour markets are changing rapidly, the availability of affordable housing is under intensifying pressure, and public spaces have become battlegrounds of urban politics. This edited collection brings together contributors in order to spark an international dialogue about the production of alternative urban spaces through a threefold exploration of alternative spaces of work, dwelling, and public life. Seeking out and examining existing alternative urban spaces, the authors identify the elements that provide opportunities to create radically different futures for the world’s urban spaces. This volume is the culmination of an international search for alternative practices to dominant modes of capitalist urbanisation, bringing together interdisciplinary, empirically grounded chapters from hot spots in disparate cities around the world. Offering a multidisciplinary perspective, The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces will be of great interest to academics working across the fields of urban sociology, human geography, anthropology, political science, and urban planning. It will also be indispensable to any postgraduate students engaged in urban and regional studies.

The Social Production of Urban Space

The Social Production of Urban Space
Author: M. Gottdiener
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1994-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780292727724

In this second edition, the author assesses important new theoretical models of urban space--and their shortcomings--including the global perspective, the flexible accumulation school, postmodernism, the new international division of labor, and the 'growth machine' perspective.

Negotiating Urban Conflicts

Negotiating Urban Conflicts
Author: Helmuth Berking
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles, cities play the role of powerful integrators; yet on the other hand urban contexts are the ideal setting for marginalization and violence. The struggle over control of urban spaces is an ambivalent mode of sociation: while producing themselves, groups produce exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use the boundaries they have created to define themselves. This volume presents major urban conflicts and analyzes modes of negotiation against the theoretical background of postcolonialism.

Resistance and the City

Resistance and the City
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004369201

Resistance and the City focuses on the diverse strategies of resistance and subversion that challenge the stability of the hegemonic order of urban communities.

Writing Urban Space

Writing Urban Space
Author: Liam Murphy Bell
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2012
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1780992548

From William Blake through to Iain Sinclair, literature has sought to engage with and transform urban space. Architects now seek the input of poets, and storytelling is employed in urban regeneration. Writing Urban Space investigates this relationship between imaginative writing and the built environment.