Philosophy and Geography II The Production of Public Space

by Light, Andrew; Smith, Jonathan M.; Casey, Edward S.; Chaston, Ian; Dimendberg, Edward; Gorton, Matthew; Gulick, John; Hillier, Jean; Kilian, Ted; Mason, Hugh; Pascalev, Mario; Smith, Neil; Stevenson, John; Tétreault, Mary Ann; Wallin, Luke; White, John

• ISBN13: 9780847688098
• ISBN10: 0847688097
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-18
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Philosophers and geographers have converged on the topic of public space, fascinated and in many ways alarmed by fundamental changes in the way post-industrial societies produce space for public use, and in the way citizens of these same societies perceive and constitute themselves as a public. This volume advances this inquiry, making extensive use of political and social theory, while drawing intimate connections between political principles, social processes, and the commonplaces of our everyday environments.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix	(2)
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Geography, Philosophy, and Public Space	1	(16)
Andrew Light
Jonathan M. Smith
1. Symposium on Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space	17	(64)
Henri Lefebvre on Abstract Space	17	(32)
Edward Dimendberg
Antinomies of Space and Nature in Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space	49	(22)
Neil Smith
The Production of Space or The Heterogeneity of Place: A Commentary on Edward Dimendberg and Neil Smith	71	(10)
Edward S. Casey
2. Beyond the Public/Private Dichotomy	81	(76)
Formal Politics, Meta-Space, and the Construction of Civil Life	81	(18)
Mary Ann Tetreault
The Stranger on the Green	99	(16)
Luke Wallin
Public and Private, Power and Space	115	(20)
Ted Kilian
The "Disappearance of Public Space": An Ecological Marxist and Lefebvrian Approach	135	(22)
John Gulick
3. Regional Territories	157	(76)
Contested Space: The Rural Idyll and Competing Notions of the Good Society in the U.K.	157	(22)
Matthew Gorton
John White
Ian Chaston
The Rights of Rights of Way	179	(10)
Hugh Mason
The Mediation of the Public Sphere: Ideological Origins, Practical Possibilities	189	(18)
John Stevenson
Representation, Identity, and the Communicative Shaping of Place	207	(26)
Jean Hillier
Maps and Entitlement to Territory	233	(16)
Mario Pascalev
Index	249	(2)
About the Editors and Contributors	251	(2)
Philosophy and Geography Style and Submission Guide	253