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Urban Public Spaces
This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or implemented by the various public and private actors in urban public spaces, as well as the daily, or eventual, politics exercised by the organized civil society and by citizens. It presents a collection of contributions about the public space in different theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches. Coming from different disciplines, the authors share an understanding about the need to analyze the uses and appropriations of the city by social subjects and groups as they represent difference and see the city as a place to share life experiences; as such, they argue, ...
Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City
Across the globe, from established tourist destinations such as Venice or Prague to less traditional destinations in both the global North and South, there is mounting evidence that points to an increasing politicization of the topic of urban tourism. In some cities, residents and other stakeholders take issue with the growth of tourism as such, as well as the negative impacts it has on their cities; while in others, particular forms and effects of tourism are contested or deplored. In numerous settings, contestations revolve less around tourism itself than around broader processes, policies and forces of urban change perceived to threaten the right to ‘stay put’, the quality of life or ...
Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration
This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. It especially focuses on the tool of urban living labs, as promising in promoting new and more effective local governance and in including the different actors into the planning process. The book combines theory and practice, since it is the result of action-research conducted in different social housing estates all over Europe. Building on the results of the SoHoLab project (2017–2020), the book benefits from a multidisciplinary perspective, since the researchers involved belong to the fields of anthropology, urban planning, architecture, urban sociology. The project combined theoretical reflections with the installation and/or the consolidation of Urban Living Labs, run by universities, in large social housing estates in three European cities: Brussels, Milan and Paris.
Living Politics in the City
Public space and performativity from the perspective of architecture In recent decades, architecture has been seen as a field of practice that contributes greatly to the performativity of public space. In spite of the explosion of virtual communities through social media and the limitations imposed by pandemics, architecture today still holds an active role in (literally) building our societies. Bearing in mind its acute politicisation in past years, Living Politics in the City looks at public space from the perspective of architecture and its effective contribution, not as a prop but as an actual catalyst for embodying politics. The essays gathered here span five continents, activating vari...
Housing as Commons
Experiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas. In such a context, it becomes crucially important to re-think the need to define common urban worlds “from below". Here, Penny Travlou and Stavros Stavridis trace contemporary practices of urban commoning through which people re-define housing economies. Connecting to a rich literature on the importance of commons and of practices of commoning for the creation of emancipated societies, the authors discuss whether housing struggles and co-habitation experiences may contribute in crucial ways to the development of a commoning culture. The authors explore a variety of urban contexts through global case studies from across the Global North and South, in search of concrete examples that illustrate the potentialities of urban commoning.
Livable Cities from a Global Perspective
Livable Cities from a Global Perspective offers case studies from around the world on how cities approach livability. They address the fundamental question, what is considered "livable?" The journey each city has taken or is currently taking is unique and context specific. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all approach to livability. Some cities have had a long history of developing livability policies and programs that focus on equity, economic, and environmental concerns, while other cities are relatively new to the game. In some areas, government has taken the lead while in other areas, grassroots activism has been the impetus for livability policies and programs. The challenge fa...
Metropoles des Ameriques en mutation
Les metropoles des Ameriques du Nord et du Sud sont-elles en train de suivre, de plus en plus, les unes et les autres, leurs propres voies ou, tout au contraire, sont-elles en train de converger?? Elles sont, du moins, en pleine mutation et les etudier en regard de leurs similitudes et de leurs differences contribue sans aucun doute a ebranler les idees recues a leur sujet.Ce livre aborde l'evolution des systemes urbains et des agglomerations metropolitaines des Ameriques, les inegalites sociales qui se manifestent entre les habitants, l'engagement dans le developpement durable en lien avec les transports et l'acces a l'eau ainsi que des reflexions sur la ville et ses modeles. Regroupant des...
Las Transformaciones de Las Metrópolis de Las Américas
Este libro, que se terminó de compilar a finales de 2011 , es el resultado de una amplia colaboración que se extendió a treinta y ocho investigadores provenientes de siete países: diez y seis de Canadá, nueve de Brasil, seis de Argentina, tres de México, dos de Francia, uno de Colombia y uno de Italia. Los textos aquí reunidos tratan de once metrópolis diferentes, a saber: cinco brasileñas (Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo y Santos), tres zonas de la metrópoli argentina de Buenos Aires (Zárate, Campana, Tigre), dos metrópolis de Estados Unidos (San Francisco-Oakland y Seattle), la metrópoli de México, Bogotá en Colombia y, finalmente, la metrópoli canadiens...
