Temporary use and the onto-politics of ‘public’ space
| Autor: | David C. Thorns, Suzanne A. Vallance, Sarah Edwards, Ann Dupuis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Economic growth
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Development Public administration Devolution Urban Studies Politics Public space State (polity) Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Situated Quality (business) Sociology 050703 geography Urbanism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Cities. 70:83-90 |
| ISSN: | 0264-2751 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cities.2017.06.023 |
| Popis: | This paper is situated amidst concerns that public spaces are diminishing in both quantity and quality (Low & Smith, 2006), with this trend exacerbated by the excising of state budgets for their provision, maintenance or development, their privatisation and/or devolution of their management to corporate interests. Here we interrogate what ‘public space’ is using the lens of temporary use projects undertaken on privately-owned land. As a distinct form of DIY urbanism, it could be argued that temporary use projects might be least likely to promote enduring change but, in this paper, we demonstrate that it is their very transience that enables the interstices between the actual and the possible to be exploited in innovative ways. We explore how a distinctive methodology associated with temporary use projects, and a reconceptualisation of what public space is, creates new opportunities to restore the emancipatory potential of (increasingly) emaciated public places. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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