Routledge handbook of urban public space : use, design, and management

Author(s)

• Franck, Karen A.
• Huang, Te-Sheng (City planner)

Bibliographic Information

Routledge handbook of urban public space : use, design, and management

edited by Karen A. Franck and Te-Sheng Huang

（Routledge international handbooks）

Routledge, 2023

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Demonstrates the continued liveliness of urban public space in different countries. Focuses on four particular kinds of activities that occur in public space: recreation, commerce that occur frequently and less frequent ones of protest, celebration. Describes newly emerging types of public spaces and their uses. Range of cases is international in scope Draws upon thorough empirical research about particular activities and places. Provides guidance for conducting future research about urban public space.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Use, Design and Management of Urban Public Space Karen A. Franck and Te-Sheng Huang Part I: Emerging Types of Public Spaces 2. Ecological Restoration Parks: An Emerging Type of Public Space in China Han Yan 3. City Beaches: Enlivening Marginal Spaces in Germany Quentin Stevens 4. Pedestrian Plazas: A New Type of Neighborhood Space in New York City Hanife Vardi-Topal Part II: Recreation 5. New Opportunities for Women's Recreation in Tripoli, Libya Fathia Elmenghawi 6. Cruising in Urban Parks: Gay Intimacy in Public Space in New York and Boston John Bezemes 7. Private Sound Environments in Urban Public Space: Headphone Use in Parks in New York Chathurthi S. De Silva 8. Parkour: Loosening Public Urban Space in Finland Lieven Ameel and Sirpa Tani Part III: Commerce 9. What Commerce Can Do: The Case of Streets in the US Vikas Mehta 10. Little Damascus: A Thriving Commercial Passageway in Sixth of October City, Egypt Amira Mostafa Badran 11. Using and Negotiating Public Space: Street Vending in Taiwan Te-Sheng Huang 12. Getting a Spot on the Street: Street Vendors' Access to Public Space in Bogota, Colombia Ana Maria Vargas 13. Food Truck Rallies: Communal Eating in Public Space in the U.S. John Jones Part IV: Protest 14. The Life and Death of Tahrir Square: From Protest Platform to Roundabout Mariam Abdelazim 15. City of Protest: From Exterior to Interior Public Space in Hong Kong Tom Verebes 16. Displaying and Contesting State Power: The Story of Taksim Square and Gezi Park, Istanbul Zehra Betul Atasoy Part V: Living 17. Inhabiting the City without Shelter in Santa Cruz, California Cory Parker 18. Living on the Streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Repulic of Congo Kristien Geenen 19. Using Public Space to Escape Violence and Social Exclusion in Sao Paulo, Brazil Daniel Jupp Kina and Lorraine van Blerk Part VI: Celebration 20. Parades in Manhattan: Transforming Public Space Karen A. Franck 21. Spaces and Sound: Celebrating and Protesting in Berlin Banu Cicek Tulu 22. Joining the Party in Downtown Brooklyn Maryam Hosseini Part VII: Research Methods for Studying Public Space 23. Recording Diverse Uses of a City's Public Spaces Sverre Bjerkeset anad Jonny Aspen 24. Using Archival Sources to Study Mass Behavior in Public Space Johann Sagan 25. What is the Question? Answer the Question. Karen A. Franck and Te-Sheng Huang

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Details

• NCID: BD04600300
• ISBN:
  • 9780367611637
• LCCN: 2022045469
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 385 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HT185
  • DC23 : 307.1/216
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Public spaces -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Public spaces -- Design
  • LCSH : Land use, Urban -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : City planning -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Sociology, Urban
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA75177945