Clara Irazábal

Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events (eBook, ePUB)

Citizenship, Democracy and Public Space in Latin America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America's cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there, revealing contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134326235
• Artikelnr.: 38256508

Autorenporträt

Clara Irazábal is the Latin Lab Director and Associate Professor of Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Events 1. Introduction:
Citizenship, Democracy and Urban Space In Latin America Part 1: Cities,
Democracies and Powers: The Politics of Spatial Appropriations and Social
Representations 2. Political Appropriations of Public Space: Extraordinary
Events in the Zócalo of Mexico City 3. Reinventing the Void: The Museum of
Art of São Paulo and the Reshaping of Public Life along Avenida Paulista 4.
Permanence of a Memorable Urban Space as a Place for Extraordinary Events:
The Plaza of the Central Station in Santiago de Chile 5. Lima's Historic
Center: Old Places Shaping New Social Arrangements 6. The Plaza De Bolivar
In Bogota: Place of Singularity, Multiplicity of Events Part 2: Place,
Citizenships and Nationhoods: Singularity of Place, Multiplicity of
Projects 7. Space, Revolution, and Resistance: Ordinary Places and
Extraordinary Events in Caracas 8. The Struggle for Urban Territories:
Human Rights Activists in Buenos Aires 9. Events in the Metropolis: Public
Space, Celebration, Citizenship, and Resistance in Rio de Janeiro 10.
Iconic Voids and Social Identity in a Polycentric City: Havana from the
19th to the 21st Century 11. Unresolved Public Expressions of
Anti-Trujillismo in Santo Domingo