This volume provides an up-to-date critical reflection of a range of initiatives and interventions across diverse experiences and perspectives, with a strong inter-disciplinary approach to the spatial implications of the profound socio-economic changes impacting contemporary urbanism.
Frank Gaffikin, Emeritus Professor and former Director of Research from Queens University, Belfast
Public Space/Contested Space
It is not possible to be alive today in the United States without feeling the influence of the political climate on the spaces in which people live, work, and form communities. Public Space/Contested Space illustrates the ways in which creative interventions in public space have constituted a significant dimension of contemporary political action, and how this space can both reflect and spur economic and cultural change.
Drawing insight from a range of disciplines and fields, the essays in this volume assess the effectiveness of protest movements that deploy bodies in urban space, and social projects that build communities while also exposing inequalities and presenting new political narratives. With sections exploring the built environment, artists, and activists and public space, the book brings together diverse voices to reveal the complexities and politicization of public space within the United States.
Public Space/Contested Space provides a significant contribution to an understudied dimension of contemporary political action and will be a resource to students of urban studies and planning, architecture, sociology, art history, and human geography.
Kevin D. Murphy is Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of the Department of History of Art at Vanderbilt University. Previously, he was on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center and the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
Sally ODriscoll is Professor of English and Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fairfield University. Her work on 18th-century literature and culture has appeared in such journals as Signs, Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature, and Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation.
The Metropolis and Modern Life
A Routledge series
Edited by Zachary P. Neal, Michigan State University
This series brings original perspectives on key topics in urban research to todays students in a series of short accessible texts, guided readers, and practical handbooks. Each volume examines how long-standing urban phenomena continue to be relevant in an increasingly urban and global world and, in doing so, connects the best new scholarship with the wider concerns of students seeking to understand life in the 21st-century metropolis.
Books in the Series:
Common Ground? Reading and Reflections on Public Space edited by Anthony Orum and Zachary P. Neal
The Gentrification Debates edited by Japonica Brown-Saracino
The Power of Urban Ethnic Places: Cultural Heritage and Community Life by Jan Lin
Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy by Costas Spirou
The Connected City by Zachary Neal
The Worlds Cities edited by A.J. Jacobs
Ethnography and the City edited by Richard Ocejo
Comparative Urban Studies by Hilary Silver
Housing America: Issues and Debates by Emily Tumpson Molina
Urban Empires by Edward Glaeser, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp
Experiencing Cities, 4th edition by Mark Hutter
Public Space/Contested Space, edited by Kevin D. Murphy and Sally ODriscoll
Public Space/Contested Space
Imagination and Occupation
Edited by Kevin D. Murphy and Sally ODriscoll
First published 2021
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Murphy, Kevin D, editor. | ODriscoll, Sally, editor.
Title: Public space/contested space: imagination and occupation /
edited by Kevin D Murphy and Sally ODriscoll.
Description: 1 Edition. | New York City: Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Metropolis and modern life | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020038321 (print) | LCCN 2020038322 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367558123 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367558116 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003095262 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Public spacesUnited States. | Community developmentUnited States. |
Social movementsPolitical aspectsUnited States. |
City planningPolitical aspectsUnited States.
Classification: LCC HT123.P83 2021 (print) | LCC HT123 (ebook) |
DDC 303.48/40973dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020038321
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020038322
ISBN: 978-0-367-55812-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-55811-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-09526-2 (ebk)
Typeset in Bembo
by Newgen Publishing UK
To all those architects, activists, artists, and academics who have put their bodies in the streets and used their creative skills to reimagine a different future for public space. And to the activists of Black Lives Matter, who are challenging the boundaries of public space and public discourse as this book goes to press.
Contents
Kevin D. Murphy and Sally ODriscoll
SECTION 1
The Built Environment
Garrett Nelli, AIA
Brian D. Goldstein
Silvina Lopez Barrera and Erin Sassin
Kevin D. Murphy
SECTION 2
Artists and Public Space
Laura Anderson Barbata
Jerome Reyes and tammy ko Robinson
Joanna Gardner-Huggett
Sheila Pepe
SECTION 3
Activists and Public Space
Susan Fraiman
Marlisa Wise
Maria Foscarinis and Eric Tars
L.A. Kauffman with Sally ODriscoll
Laura Anderson Barbata was born in Mexico City, and works in Brooklyn and Mexico City. She has initiated projects in the Amazon of Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Norway, and the US. Her drawings, photographs, and projects have received awards from the Institute of Bellas Artes FONCA, the Lindbergh Foundation, the Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work is included in many private and public collections. She has been featured in
