Public Space

Scelta modale, atteggiamenti e condivisione dello spazio nella mobilità quotidiana

by Giulio Mattioli

Published in "Sociologia Urbana e Rurale", , 94, pp.103-118.

The unsustainability of current trends in daily mobility and the need to manage travel demand constitute the... more The unsustainability of current trends in daily mobility and the need to manage travel demand constitute the background of this article, which focuses on the notions of attitudes and mode choice behavior. In this context, an approach to the study of their mutual relationship is put forward and exemplified by the discussion of an attitude dimension, “social mixing and secessionism in daily mobility”, focused on the propensity to share space with strangers during travel. The author then presents the results of an exploratory empirical study, carried out on a sample of college students in Milan in 2010 and aimed at testing the existence and the internal structure of the construct. While the complexity of the attitude dimension will probably require further studies, the results confirm the heuristic potential of the proposed theoretical framework.

The propensity to share space with other unknown passengers: an attitude dimension affecting mobility behavior?

by Giulio Mattioli

El espacio público como ideología

by Daniel Malet Calvo

Co-autored with Manuel Delgado

Jornadas “Marx en el siglo XXI. Pensar la realidad, activar la teoría” Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de La Rioja Jornadas “Marx en el siglo XXI. Pensar la realidad, activar la teoría” Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de La Rioja

Public Art, Political Space: The Rearticulation of Power in Postrevolutionary Tunisia

by Michael Caster

Occupy Wall Street: The Liminality of Zuccotti Park

by katherine sullivan

The Irregularities of Violence in Athens. In Cultural Anthropology Hotspots, Special Issue on the Greek Crisis

by Dimitris Dalakoglou

SEE http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/439

The so called 'Greek crisis' is linked with enormous structural violence, exercised by the state apparatuses and... more The so called 'Greek crisis' is linked with enormous structural violence, exercised by the state apparatuses and international institutions (IMF, EU, ECB), against the entire social body. Besides the violence of poverty and marginalisation, the Greek crisis has already been associated with a profound increase in the rate of suicide and violent crimes; recent research has also revealed a dramatic impact on the general health of the population. In this piece I will not focus on structural violence so much as on acts of physical violence performed publicly in Athens during recent political events.

After December: Spatial Legacies of the 2008 Athens Uprising. In Upping the Anti vol 10.

by Dimitris Dalakoglou

See: http://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/10-after-december-spatial-legacies-of-the-2008-athens-uprising/

The cold-blooded police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia on... more The cold-blooded police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia on December 6, 2008 sparked an unprecedented wave of protests and rioting. These protests quickly spread not only throughout Athens and the majority of Greek cities but also beyond the country’s borders. Around the world, more than 200 solidarity actions took place in December alone. During the riots and clashes that followed Grigoropoulos’ death, police departments, banks, government ministries, and other public buildings in Athens came under near-daily attack, while universities, high schools, town halls, and other buildings were occupied by demonstrators across the country. This episode ­– a major insurrection sparked by a single incident of police brutality – has attracted considerable attention from global social justice movements. The question of the uprising’s aftermath remains on many people’s minds. Before considering the legacies of the uprising, however, it’s useful to look at how the events of December 2008 became possible in the first place.

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.

Tracing the City: Exploring the Private Experience of Public Art through Art and Anthropology

by Martha Radice

Co-authored with Kim Morgan and Solomon Nagler. Presented at ISEA2011, Istanbul.

What happens when the private experience of art is disrupted or reframed by the chance encounters and events of urban... more What happens when the private experience of art is disrupted or reframed by the chance encounters and events of urban public life? Conversely, what happens when modes of production of art are opened up for the public to intervene in artistic creation? We draw on Lefebvre’s sociospatial theories to present the framework for our interdisciplinary research-creation project, and use it to interpret an art installation on a public city bus route.

From Right to Denial- Homeless and the Privatization of Public Space in New York City

by Carla Betancourt

What is Ubiquitous about Ubiquitous Computing?–Space, Technology, Surveillance, and Behaviour

by Martin Klamt

Raum und Norm. Zum Verhalten und seiner Regulierung in verschiedenen öffentlichen Räumen

by Martin Klamt

Verortete Normen: Öffentliche Räume, Normen, Kontrolle und Verhalten

by Martin Klamt

Verortete Normen

by Martin Klamt

Forscher als Normbrecher: Das Experiment als empirischer Zugang der Rechts-, Raum-und Sozialforschung

by Martin Klamt

Halifax’s Nocturne and the spectacle of neoliberal civics

by Max Haiven

Forthcoming in the journal Public, no.45, 2012.

Halifax’s Nocturne: Art at Night has been met with almost universal enthusiasm from both the city’s arts community as... more Halifax’s Nocturne: Art at Night has been met with almost universal enthusiasm from both the city’s arts community as well as local political and business elites. This essay argues that, while there is much laudable about civic spectacles like Nocturne, and while many of the works and performances they feature are reflexive and critical, they risk participating in (and promoting) what I term “neoliberal civics.” Ironically, these public events take place and have resonance only within a cultural, social and political landscape already dramatically privatized, one where the meaning of “creativity” has become a battleground.

The Role of the Public Institution in Iconic Architectural Development

by Matt Patterson

Forthcoming in Urban Studies (accepted March 2012).

Research on iconic architecture has often related its popularity to global political-economic trends like... more Research on iconic architecture has often related its popularity to global political-economic trends like neoliberalism and urban entrepreneurialism, but has often overlooked the immediate clients who commission these buildings. Quantitative analysis demonstrates that the majority of these clients are public cultural institutions. In order to explain the affinity between this organizational form and iconic architecture, this paper develops a model of the public institution based on its need to establish public legitimacy and attract outside support. To further develop this model, the paper presents a comparative case study of two museum expansion projects in Toronto: Daniel Libeskind’s Royal Ontario Museum, and Frank Gehry’s Art Gallery of Ontario. The study addresses the underlying motivations behind the projects, the role of global trends like neoliberalism, and how the unique logic of the public institution structured the development process itself.

What Makes Public Space Public?

by Matt Patterson

Presented at the Michigan Social Theory Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2010.

In Between Public and Private: Emerging Spaces in Cities

by Matt Patterson

Presented at Emerging Realities: A Social Sciences Graduate Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, October 15th, 2011

Is it still possible to talk about public space in an age when the shopping mall and the public square are... more Is it still possible to talk about public space in an age when the shopping mall and the public square are increasingly hard to differentiate? Urban scholars have frequently argued that we are experiencing an "end" of public space. In this paper, I argue that public spaces are not necessarily disappearing, but that we need to re-think how we define space.  Moving away from strict political-economic criteria such as ownership or economic function, I advocate for a new definition of public space based on notions of legitimacy and perceptions of collective ownership. In order to develop these ideas, I discuss three very different sites in Toronto that fall somewhere between public and private: a small downtown park, a suburban strip mall, and a sugar factory. In each case it is evident that the perceptions and actions of people do not necessarily reflect the political-economy of the spaces.

Public Space as emancipation: meditations on anarchism, radical democracy, neoliberalism and violence

by Simon Springer

Springer, S. 2011. Public Space as emancipation: meditations on anarchism, radical democracy, neoliberalism and violence. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 43 (2), 525-562.

In establishing an anarchic framework for understanding public space as a vision for radical democracy, this article... more In establishing an anarchic framework for understanding public space as a vision for radical democracy, this article proceeds as a theoretical inquiry into how an agonistic public space might become the basis of emancipation. Public space is presented as an opportunity to move beyond the technocratic elitism that often characterizes both civil societies and the neoliberal approach to development, and is further recognized as the battlefield on which the conflicting interests of the world's rich and poor are set. Contributing to the growing recognition that geographies of resistance are relational, where the “global” and the “local” are understood as co-constitutive, a radical democratic ideal grounded in material public space is presented as paramount to repealing archic power in general, and neoliberalism’s exclusionary logic in particular.