Philosophy and Geography II

The Production of Public Space

Andrew Light, Jonathan M. Smith

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 1997
• eBook ISBN: 9781461640820
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophical Metaphysics

The future of public space is uncertain. Although public spaces have become increasingly shabby and crowded, novel alternatives have appeared in the form of fantastic, semi-public pleasure grounds, developed by well-heeled, crowd-pleasing entrepreneurs and devoted to profit, consumption, and self-indulgence. Philosophers and geographers have converged on the topic of public space, fascinated and in many ways alarmed by fundamental changes in the way post-industrial societies produce space for public use, and in the way citizens of these same societies perceive and constitute themselves as a public. The contributors to this volume advance this inquiry, making extensive use of political and social theory. Philosophy and Geography II: The Production of Public Space gives readers an enhanced appreciation of the intimate connections between political principles, social processes, and the commonplaces of our everyday environments.

Table of contents

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• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Table of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Geography, Philosophy, and Public Space
• Henri Lefebvre on Abstract Space
• Antinomies of Space and Nature in Henri Lefebvre’s - The Production of Space
• The Production of Space or The Heterogeneity of Place: A Commentary on Edward Dimendberg and Neil Smith
• Formal Politics, Meta-Space, and the Construction of Civil Life
• The Stranger on the Green
• Public and Private, Power and Space
• The “Disappearance of Public Space”: An Ecological Marxist and Lefebvrian Approach
• Contested Space: The Rural Idyll and Competing Notions of the Good Society in the U.K.
• The Rights of Rights of Way
• The Mediation of the Public Sphere: Ideological Origins, Practical Possibilities
• Representation, Identity, and the Communicative Shaping of Place
• Maps and Entitlement to Territory
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Style and Submission Guide - Philosophy and Geography