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Informationen zum Autor Clara Irazábal is the Latin Lab Director and Associate Professor of Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, New York City. Klappentext Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America's cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there, revealing contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas. Zusammenfassung Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there, revealing contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Events 1. Introduction: Citizenship, Democracy and Urban Space In Latin America Part 1: Cities, Democracies and Powers: The Politics of Spatial Appropriations and Social Representations 2. Political Appropriations of Public Space: Extraordinary Events in the Zócalo of Mexico City 3. Reinventing the Void: The Museum of Art of São Paulo and the Reshaping of Public Life along Avenida Paulista 4. Permanence of a Memorable Urban Space as a Place for Extraordinary Events: The Plaza of the Central Station in Santiago de Chile 5. Lima’s Historic Center: Old Places Shaping New Social Arrangements 6. The Plaza De Bolivar In Bogota: Place of Singularity, Multiplicity of Events Part 2: Place, Citizenships and Nationhoods: Singularity of Place, Multiplicity of Projects 7. Space, Revolution, and Resistance: Ordinary Places and Extraordinary Events in Caracas 8. The Struggle for Urban Territories: Human Rights Activists in Buenos Aires 9. Events in the Metropolis: Public Space, Celebration, Citizenship, and Resistance in Rio de Janeiro 10. Iconic Voids and Social Identity in a Polycentric City: Havana from the 19th to the 21st Century 11. Unresolved Public Expressions of Anti-Trujillismo in Santo Domingo ...
