Setha M. Low

On the Plaza

The Politics of Public Space and Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780292747142
• ISBN-10: 0292747144
• Artikelnr.: 22430408

Autorenporträt

By Setha M. Low

Inhaltsangabe

1. List of Illustrations
2. Preface
3. Acknowledgments
4. Part I: Introduction
* Chapter One: Notes from the Field: A Personal Account
* Chapter Two: Public Space and Culture: The Case of the Latin American
Plaza
5. Part II: Histories
* Chapter Three: The History of the Plaza in San José, Costa Rica: The
Political Symbolism of Public Space
* Chapter Four: The European History of the Plaza: Power Relations and
Architectural Interpretation
* Chapter Five: The Indigenous History of the Plaza: The Contested
Terrain of Architectural Representations
6. Part III: Ethnographies
* Chapter Six: Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social
Construction of Public Space
* Chapter Seven: Constructing Difference: The Social and Spatial
Boundaries of Everyday Life
* Chapter Eight: Public Space and Protest: The Plaza as Art and
Commodity
7. Part IV: Conversations
* Chapter Nine: The Park and the Plaza in Costa Rican Literature:
Imagined Places
* Chapter Ten: Conversations on the Plaza: Remembered Places
* Chapter Eleven: Public Space, Politics, and Democracy
8. Appendix: Recent Costa Rican Presidents and Their Terms
9. Bibliography
10. Index