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About this book
This book explores how everyday practices in public space (sitting, playing, walking, etc.) challenge the increase of top-down control in the global city. Public Everyday Space focuses on post-Olympic Barcelonaāa time of unprecedented levels of gentrification, branding, mass tourism, and immigration. Drawing from examples observed in public spaces (streets, plazas, sidewalks, and empty lots), as well as in cultural representation (film, photography, literature), this book exposes the quiet agency of those excluded from urban decision-making but who nonetheless find ways to carve out spatial autonomy for themselves. Absent from the map or postcard, the quicksilver spatial phenomena documented in this book can make us rethink our definitions of culture, politics, inclusion, legality, architecture, urban planning, and public space.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1.Ā Public Everyday Space and Culture
- 2.Ā Spatial Tactics
- 3.Ā Grassroots Collectives Recover Public Space
- 4.Ā Undocumented Immigration and Neighborhood Citizenship On and Off Film
- Back Matter