TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kingwell,Mark
AU  - Turmel,Patrick
TI  - Rites of way: the politics and poetics of public space 
T2  - Canadian commentaries series
SN  - 1554581672
AV  - NA9053.S6 R58 2009eb
U1  - 307.1/216 23
PY  - 2009///
KW  - Public spaces
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Espaces publics
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Human Geography
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Rites of Way, Paths of Desire; PART I; PART II; PART III; PART IV; Contributors; Index
N2  - There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanescent and multidimensional concept that too often escapes scrutiny. The essays in Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space open up multiple dimensions of the concept from architectural, political, philosophical, and technological points of view. There is some historical analysis here, bu
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