Research report. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Public space analyses. Agnes Matoga, Aoife Doyle, Elisa Avellini and Sila Ceren Vari. Theoretical framing. The anyone-- anywhere space(s)? Analyzing diversity in public spaces / Joseph Heathcott -- The street is not a square : urban politics from the margins / Suzanne Hall -- Public space, housing affairs, and resistance combined : about silences, absences and the public articulation of critique / Sabine Knierbein -- Vienna : mapping the music city in the 20th century. Theoretical approaches / Susana Zapke -- Methodological approaches. On vienna's Morzinplatz : uncanny sites/toxic complicities/transformative practice / Elke Krasny -- Ka-lei-do-scope. A workshop about audio-visual methodologies and urban studies / Michael Dieminger and Maxie Jost -- Great streets for the post-carbon age / Joshua Grigsby and Florian Lorenz -- Sensing the city from within : tracking traces in the public space / Isis Boot -- Walking the city : a work report from a one-afternoon-workshop in July in "Kreuzgassenviertel" / Amila S̆irbegović -- Public space analyses. Seeking the boundaries of public and private spaces / Nadine Grass, Viola Kessel, Linda Raile and Matthias Treitler -- Private aspects of public life : connecting the private with public space / Omar Ahmed, Beate Bartlmä, Ana Daniela Dresler, Christina Englmann, Maxi Jager, Michael Kunz, Julia Klemm, Sarah Maierl and Dillon Massey -- Interest(s) in diverse public space / Anna Haberl, Claudia Heinzl, Laura Kuttner, Liese Loverix, Fred Paxton, Karolína Plás̆kov̀, Clara Rindler-Schantl, Ben Sequeira, Raphael Sedlitzky and Xin Tong -- The anyone-- anywhere space(s)? Analyzing diversity in public spaces / Agnes Matoga, Aoife Doyle, Elisa Avellini and Sila Ceren Vari.
Summary:
Public spaces are important places in city and urban life. The functions ascribed to public space are broad, ranging from political representation, the possibility of political protest and demonstration, to economic use (such as street markets) and the politics of memory. They are also places where different expectations and interests are negotiated. Public spaces are arenas of social life and interaction, and an irreplaceable characteristic of the European city. In the context of both a growing and increasingly diversified city and a neoliberal urban development model, to what extent can the development processes that manifest in public space still be steered? There are stark differences in the reception of public space, its qualities and accessibility (or lack of), which lead to conflicts between different actors about the conditions of its use.
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