Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history

Objekti industrijskog nasleđa kao javni prostori

by Jasna Cizler

Industrial heritage buildings as public spaces
Published in: Otvoreno o javnim prostorima, 2012, Građanske Inicijative, Beograd.

Verortete Normen

by Martin Klamt

Verortete Normen: Öffentliche Räume, Normen, Kontrolle und Verhalten

by Martin Klamt

Deliberação Mediada: Uma tipologia das funções dos media para a formação do debate público / Mediated Deliberation: A preliminar typology

by Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques

Title in English: Mediated Deliberation: A Typology. Text in Portuguese. O objetivo do trabalho é oferecer uma... more Title in English: Mediated Deliberation: A Typology. Text in Portuguese. O objetivo do trabalho é oferecer uma sistematização teórica acerca do tema da deliberação mediada. De início, são apresentados, brevemente, os princípios deliberacionistas. A seguir, discute-se o lugar da comunicação de massa nas práticas discursivas a permearem a democracia contemporânea, enfatizando-se a contribuição que os media ofertam à noção de sistema deliberativo. Partindo do exame de um conjunto de trabalhos a lidar com a interface entre deliberação e comunicação, detecta-se a existência de um intervalo compreensivo gerado pelas distintas acepções de deliberação mediada expostas nestas referências. Propõe-se, então, uma sistematização teórica da ideia de deliberação mediada, sublinhando-se três funções dos media para a formação do debate público: 1) Instrumentos; 2) Provedores autônomos de insumos informacionais; 3) Agentes de interesses a tomarem parte nos debates.

Werden qualitativ minderwertige Graffitis eher als öffentliches Ärgernis empfunden

by Tobias Goecke

Justice inquisitoire et construction de la souveraineté : le modèle ecclésial (XIIe-XIVe siècles). Normes, pratiques, diffusion

by Julien Théry

Paru dans "Annuaire de l'EHESS. Compte rendus des cours et conférences 2004-2005, Paris : EHESS, 2006, p. 593-594

Présentation dans ses grandes lignes d'une recherche orientée selon trois hypothèses : les pratiques d'enquête de... more Présentation dans ses grandes lignes d'une recherche orientée selon trois hypothèses : les pratiques d'enquête de vérité ont été au fondement d'un régime de relations de pouvoir original caractérisable comme une première forme de gouvernementalité souveraine ; le modèle ecclésial et sa procédure " romano-canonique " ont eu un rôle central pour la mise en place de ce nouveau régime ; l'enquête de vérité était constitutive de deux registres inhérents à cette gouvernementalité souveraine, celui de la "fama" et celui des "enormia". L'étude porte sur une longue série de procès menés par la papauté des XIIe-XIVe s., contre des prélats accusés d'" excès " ou " crimes " souvent dits " énormes ". Ces enquêtes ont constitué un domaine d'expérimentation, un laboratoire de l'inquisitoire canonique. La réflexion concerne ici principalement sur le rôle de la "fama", qui permettait la capillarité et la centralisation des relations de pouvoir organisées par l'enquête, tout en instaurant une problématique de vérité au cœur de ces relations. La "fama"donnait aux faits concernés un statut de vérité incertaine, à vérifier par l'enquête que seules pouvaient mener les autorités compétentes, c'est-à-dire les institutions souveraines

"Burning Up a Candle: Religion and the Transformation of the Urban Space in Istanbul" Volkan Aytar & Ayşe Çavdar, Published in Italian as: “Accendendo una candela: Religione e trasformazione dello spazio urbana a Istanbul,” Dialoghi Internazionali-Città nel Mondo, No: 11. Milano: Bruno Mondadori (July 2009).

by Volkan Aytar

"Burning Up a Candle: Religion and the Transformation of the Urban Space in Istanbul" Volkan Aytar & Ayşe Çavdar, Published in Italian as: “Accendendo una candela: Religione e trasformazione dello spazio urbana a Istanbul,” Dialoghi Internazionali-Città nel Mondo, No: 11. Milano: Bruno Mondadori (July 2009).

Allegations of ‘communitarian pressures’ remain to be at the center of social, political and cultural debates in... more Allegations of ‘communitarian pressures’ remain to be at the center of social, political and cultural debates in Turkey. Such debates particularly increased after the rise to power of the AKP in 2002. Seminal sociologist Şerif Mardin argued that such communitarian pressures, dubbed as the “neighborhood pressure” (mahalle baskısı) constitute one of the dominant characteristics of the Turkish social texture whereby social difference is scrutinized by moralistic and watchful eyes of (Islamic) conservatism. While the neo-liberal ‘global city’ passionately promoted by the AKP increasingly strangles the ‘neighborhood,’ this latter at once seem to exert an intolerant oppression on social difference and multiculturalism, thus further eroding the bases of multi-confessional co-existence. As Istanbul gets ready to be the European Capital of Culture in 2010, it remains to be seen whether multiculturalism and multi-confessionality would only serve as rhetorical advertisement slogans to sell the city to a global clientele or could be revitalized as the bases of religious harmony, cross-borrowings and learning from one another. Perhaps, both the "neoliberal global city" and the "intolerant, repressive neighborhood" have a lot to learn from the Muslim women on headscarves visiting the First Tuesday Greek Orthodox Church in Kuzguncuk.

Urban Play: Imaginatively Responsible Behavior as an Alternative to Neoliberalism

by Fred Landers

(forthcoming), Arts in Psychotherapy. This draft submitted on June 7, 2011. Small edits made on October 15, 2011.

Urban Play is a budding form of social activism in which groups of friends engage in improvised play with each other... more Urban Play is a budding form of social activism in which groups of friends engage in improvised play with each other and with strangers in public places. This work may contribute to social justice by helping participants discover opportunities for change. If neoliberalism encourages the pursuit of narrowly defined self-interests, neoliberal institutions may be maintained by the fear that these interests are threatened. By allowing participants to define the actions that are uniquely possible among them, play appears to offer an alternative to neoliberalism. What has been learned so far from playing in public also suggests a fresh perspective on Developmental Transformations, the form of drama therapy that inspired Urban Play.

Construire la ville: la dimension mondiale dans l'urbanisation moderne

by Marta Gutman

Review essay published in Perspective: la revue de l'INHA 3 (2010-2011)

Healthcare Reform in the United States: Historical and Current Perspectives

by Josephine Barnett

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Since January 2011, there has been tremendous effort on the part of the House of Representatives to repeal both the... more Since January 2011, there has been tremendous effort on the part of the House of Representatives to repeal both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education reconciliation Act of 2010. There have been 4 pieces of legislation aimed at repealing the health care law, which has been voted on by Congress. The Senate has voted on 1 of these, but it did not pass. On January 6th 2011 the Obama Administration has released a statement that if Obama were presented with a bill to repeal the health care legislation, he would veto it. The following report will focus on the most recent debate around the repeal of both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act(PPACA) and the Health Care and Education reconciliation Act of 2010 (HCERA). I aim to explore the debate over the repeal, examining public opinion, recent legislature and both federal and state court decisions concerning health care reform and/or repeal legislation.

‘A sort of involuntary mise-en-scène': The Adaptation of Extra-textual Narratives of Space in Scorsese’s Casino

by Helen Wood

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This paper develops the idea that it is not only literary forms which are susceptible to adaptation. In fact, certain... more This paper develops the idea that it is not only literary forms which are susceptible to adaptation. In fact, certain geographical spaces containing what could be conceived as a ‘narrative-of-space’ or ‘urban text’, can also be appropriated or adapted by film, therefore multiplying the range of an adaptation’s sources and intertexts. Focussing specifically upon the city of Las Vegas in relation to Martin Scorsese’s Casino (1995), the discussion will attempt to gently widen the scope of Adaptation Theory by exploring how the psychological, symbolically communicative qualities of fiction can 1) be extended to urban space, and 2) showing the ways in which Casino (incidentally, both a novel and a film) ‘adapts’ this text to both the Casino story and to the cinematic medium more generally.

Understanding the Marketing Concepts of Real Estate in Hong Kong from Public Choice of Open Space

by Kit Lam

Co-authored with Min WANG and Chi-wai YEUNG.
2002. Urban Planners (in Chinese), vol. 3, pp. 49-58. Published in China.

王敏及楊志威合著, 2002.〈由開放空間的公眾選擇解讀香港房地產的環境經營理念〉,《規劃師》, 第3期, 49-53頁.

This paper studies the links between the public choices of open space and the design, planning and marketing by real... more This paper studies the links between the public choices of open space and the design, planning and marketing by real estate given Hong Kong's extremely dense urban environment.