European cities are changing rapidly in part due to the process of de-industrialization, European integration and economic globalization. Within those cities public spaces are the meeting place of politics and culture, social and individual territories, instrumental and expressive concerns. Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe investigates how European city authorities understand and deal with their public spaces, how this interacts with market forces, social norms and cultural expectations, whether and how this relates to the needs and experiences of their citizens, exploring new strategies and innovative practices for strengthening public spaces and urban culture.
Contents
Chapter 1 A moment of transformation Ali Madanipour, Sabine Knierbein, and Aglaée Degros
Part I STRATEGIES, PLANS AND POLICIES
Chapter 2 Urban spaces as public action ‘made durable’: Open spaces and urban change in Milan Massimo Bricocoli and Paola Savoldi
Chapter 3 Vienna: (Re)framing public policies, (re)shaping public spaces? Sabine Knierbein, Ali Madanipour and Aglaée Degros
Chapter 4 The Return of the port as public space in Antwerp Katja Hackenberg
Chapter 5 Exchange in the street: Rethinking open-air markets in Budapest Levente Polyák
Part II MULTIPLE ROLES OF PUBLIC SPACE
Chapter 6 4,000,000 m² of public space: The Berlin ‘Tempelhofer Feld’ and a short walk with Lefebvre and Laclau Nikolai Roskamm
Chapter 7 How to build the public spaces of a democracy? The design of new public spaces in the city centre of Dresden after reunification Chloë Voisin-Bormuth
Chapter 8 Memorials and material dislocation: The politics of public space in Warsaw Jerzy Elżanowski
Chapter 9 Urban public spaces in Switzerland: ‘Betwixt and between’ performance and competence Monika Litscher
Part III EVERYDAY LIFE AND SHARING THE CITY
Chapter 10 Urban transformation, social transition: Barbès, Paris, where ‘otherness’ takes (public) place Maria Anita Palumbo
Chapter 11 Public, private and other spaces in multicultural Hackney, London: Spatial aspects of local ethnic-religious relations Penny (Panagiota) Koutrolikou
Chapter 12 Inhabiting cities, domesticating public space: Making sense of the changing public life of contemporary London Regan Koch and Alan Latham
Chapter 13 The everyday life and sharing of public and private open space in Istanbul’s informal settlements Noah Billig
Chapter 14 Segregative power of violence in Belfast and Naples: Exploring the role of public spaces reconnecting divided societies Gabriella Esposito De Vita
Chapter 15 Public space and the challenges of urban transformation in Europe Ali Madanipour, Sabine Knierbein, and Aglaée Degros
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