Loose space : possibility and diversity in urban life

edited by Karen A. Franck and Quentin Stevens.

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

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Contents 1. Tying down loose space / Karen A. Franck and Quentin Stevens -- 2. Found spaces : freedom of choice in public life / Leanne G. Rivlin -- 3. Open-ended space : urban streets in different cultural contexts / Nisha A. Fernando -- 4. Betwixt and between : building thresholds, liminality and public space / Quentin Stevens -- 5. Urban appropriation and loose spaces in the Guadalajara cityscape / Bernardo Jimenez-Dominquez -- 6. Urban slippage : smooth and striated streetscapes in Bangkok / Kim Dovey and Kasama Polakit -- 7. Transforming public space into sites of mourning and free expression / Karen A. Franck and Lynn Paxson -- 8. Central park, the aesthetics of order and the appearance of looseness / Julia Nevarez -- 9. Heterotopias and the experience of porous urban space / Stavros Stavrides -- 10. Stalker on location / Peter T. Lang -- 11. Dead zones, outdoor rooms and the architecture of transgression / Gil M. Doron -- 12. Social practices, sensual excess and aesthetic transgression in industrial ruins / Tim Edensor -- 13. Unruly and robust : an abandoned industrial river / Lynda H. Schneekloth -- 14. Patterns of the unplanned / Urban Catalyst, Philipp Oswalt, Philipp Misselwitz and Klaus Overmeyer.

VERY GOOD CASE STUDIES ON URBAN O PUBLIC SPACES