Explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.
Explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.
Setha M. Low is Professor of Environmental Psychology and Anthropology and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Inhaltsangabe
1. List of Illustrations 2. Preface 3. Acknowledgments 4. Part I: Introduction * Chapter One: Notes from the Field: A Personal Account * Chapter Two: Public Space and Culture: The Case of the Latin American Plaza 5. Part II: Histories * Chapter Three: The History of the Plaza in San José, Costa Rica: The Political Symbolism of Public Space * Chapter Four: The European History of the Plaza: Power Relations and Architectural Interpretation * Chapter Five: The Indigenous History of the Plaza: The Contested Terrain of Architectural Representations 6. Part III: Ethnographies * Chapter Six: Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space * Chapter Seven: Constructing Difference: The Social and Spatial Boundaries of Everyday Life * Chapter Eight: Public Space and Protest: The Plaza as Art and Commodity 7. Part IV: Conversations * Chapter Nine: The Park and the Plaza in Costa Rican Literature: Imagined Places * Chapter Ten: Conversations on the Plaza: Remembered Places * Chapter Eleven: Public Space, Politics, and Democracy 8. Appendix: Recent Costa Rican Presidents and Their Terms 9. Bibliography 10. Index
1. List of Illustrations 2. Preface 3. Acknowledgments 4. Part I: Introduction * Chapter One: Notes from the Field: A Personal Account * Chapter Two: Public Space and Culture: The Case of the Latin American Plaza 5. Part II: Histories * Chapter Three: The History of the Plaza in San José, Costa Rica: The Political Symbolism of Public Space * Chapter Four: The European History of the Plaza: Power Relations and Architectural Interpretation * Chapter Five: The Indigenous History of the Plaza: The Contested Terrain of Architectural Representations 6. Part III: Ethnographies * Chapter Six: Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space * Chapter Seven: Constructing Difference: The Social and Spatial Boundaries of Everyday Life * Chapter Eight: Public Space and Protest: The Plaza as Art and Commodity 7. Part IV: Conversations * Chapter Nine: The Park and the Plaza in Costa Rican Literature: Imagined Places * Chapter Ten: Conversations on the Plaza: Remembered Places * Chapter Eleven: Public Space, Politics, and Democracy 8. Appendix: Recent Costa Rican Presidents and Their Terms 9. Bibliography 10. Index
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