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A critical introduction to the design of public spaces The way public spaces are designed reflects the period in which they were created. However, in our globalized world of experience and images the desire for uniqueness tends to achieve the opposite: increasingly, designers of open spaces resort to the same devices and thereby distance themselves from the urban context. The author analyzes ten outstanding contemporary designs of public spaces in Europe in terms of their function in the urban context and what materials are used for their implementation. In interviews with the designers she retraces the changes of the concepts during the design stage of the projects, underpinning her findings with numerous sketches. In addition, her research focuses on how the projects were received in the community. Learning from designers of outstanding public spaces in Europe Numerous unpublished design sketches A clear guide to urban design Also available in a French edition Kritische Einführung in die Planung und Gestaltung des öffentlichen Raums Die Gestaltung öffentlicher Plätze ist ein Abbild ihrer Zeit. In unserer globalisierten Bilder- und Erlebniswelt tendiert das Streben nach Einzigartigkeit allerdings ins Gegenteil: Platzgestaltungen gleichen sich mehr und mehr in der Wahl ihrer Mittel an und verselbstständigen sich so gegenüber ihrem urbanen Umfeld. Die Autorin analysiert zehn herausragende, zeitgenössische Platzgestaltungen in Europa hinsichtlich ihrer urbanen Funktionalität wie ihrer Materialisierung. In Interviews mit den Planenden spürt sie den Veränderungen nach, die die Projekte in der Planungsphase durchlaufen haben und belegt sie mit zahlreichen Skizzen. Außerdem untersucht sie die Rezeption dieser Projekte in der Community. Lernen von den Planenden herausragender Plätze in Europa Zahlreiche unveröffentlichte Planungsskizzen Vermittelt anschaulich städtebauliches Entwerfen In einer englischen und einer französischen Sprachausgabe erhältlich

ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. --- diversity of use. --- public life. --- public space furnishing. --- public space. --- urban planning. --- urban space design. --- urbanism.

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Spurred by a new wave of protests around the world - from the Occupy movement, Black Lives Matter, the Arab Spring, and the various street marches against neoliberal governments throughout Latin America - Raussert examines how artistic practices in the Americas have challenged the control of public space in relation to gender, race, sexuality, class, and age in three periods (the 1920s and 1930s, the 1960s and 1970s, and the new millennium). This inter-American perspective sheds light on common utopian aspirations across time and space, as in the networked movements of indigenous, African-descended and the diasporic groups, epitomized by the Zapatista slogan: “Mientras los medios de comunicación sigan mintiendo, las paredes seguirán hablando” (As long as the media continues to lie, the walls will continue to talk). Indeed, this must-read book shows how contesting artists subvert the increasing privatization, consumerization and electronic monitoring of public space and its virtualization in the new media in our own time period. | George Yúdice (Professor of Latin American Studies and Modern Literature at the University of Miami, U.S.A.)

Graffiti & street art --- History of the Americas --- Demonstrations & protest movements --- Public space, artistic practices, street art, the social, the Americas

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Broken Narrative provides an extensive reflection on history, politics, and contemporary art, revolving around the cornerstones of the artistic practice of Albanian artist Armando Lulaj. The core of the book is formed by and extended interview of Lulaj by Italian artist and writer Marco Mazzi. This inquiry starts in the year 1997, a year of social and political upheaval in Albania, of anarchy, controversies and emigration, of toxic seeds of neoliberalism sprouting in an already wounded country, and continues to the present day, where politics, hidden behind art forms, has practically destroyed (again) every different and possible future of the country. This book also sketches out a connection between the recent Albanian political context and contemporary art by considering the realities of Albania as essential for an understanding of the dynamics of international power in contemporary art and architecture, and the role of politics therein.Broken Narrative comes in a bilingual English–Japanese edition, in part as homage to the subtle esthetics of Japanese poetry, which has inspired many of the Lulaj’s works, while equally evoking the subversive films of the Red Army, active in Japan at the turn of the 1960s and ’70s. Broken Narrative contains a double preface in English by Albanian scholar Jonida Gashi and in Japanese by photographer Osamu Kanemura.

Albania --- Art & design styles: Conceptual art --- Individual artists, art monographs --- Albania;esthetics;political art;post-communism;public space;resistance;state capture --- Lulaj, Armando. --- 2000-2099

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Istanbul is one of the largest and most dynamic metropolises on the European continent. In the context of processes of globalization and local urban planning projects urban space is continously contested. In this anthology forms, meanings and images of these urban spaces are discussed by architects, historians, and social scientists. Through interdisciplinary approaches of theory and case studies the book delivers a deep insight into the construction and constitution of public spaces and spheres in contemporary Istanbul. Reviewed in: Südostforschungen, 68 (2009), Ulrike Tischler-Hofer

Sociology --- Culture. --- Public Space. --- Sociology. --- Turkey. --- Urban Planning. --- Urban Studies. --- Urbanity. --- Istanbul; Urban Planning; Public Space; Culture; Urbanity; Urban Studies; Turkey; Sociology --- City planning. --- Public spaces. --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Government policy --- Management --- Istanbul --- Urban Planning --- Public Space --- Culture --- Urbanity --- Urban Studies --- Turkey

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Architecture --- Architectural design --- Architectural design. --- Architecture. --- architecture --- design --- public space --- landscape --- urban planning --- heritage --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Buildings --- Design --- Structural design --- Design and construction