Ordinary places, extraordinary events
Subtitle: citizenship, democracy, and public space in Latin America
By: [edited by] Clara Irazábal.
Contributors: Irazábal, Clara.
Series: Planning, history and environment series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780415354523; 9780203001219
Subjects: Public spaces -- Political aspects -- Latin America -- Case studies; Public spaces -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- Case studies; Cities and towns -- Latin America -- History
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: ordinary places, extraordinary events in Latin America / Clara Irazábal; title: Citzenship, democracy and public space in Latin America / Clara Irazábal; title: Cities, democracies and powers; title: Political appropriation of public space: extraordinary events in the Zócalo of Mexico City / Sergio Tamayo and Xóchitl Cruz-Guzmssn; title: Reinventing the void: São Paulo's Museum of Art and public life along Avenida Paulista / Zeuler R. Lima and Vera M. Pallamin; title: A memorable public space: the plaza of the Central Station in Santiago de Chile / Rodrigo Vidal Rojas and Hans Fox Timmling; title: Lima's historic centre: old places shaping new social arrangements / Miriam Chion and Wiley Ludea Urquizo; title: The Plaza de Boløvar of Bogotá: uniqueness of place, multiplicity of events / Alberto Saldarriaga Roa; title: Place, citzenship and nationhood; title: Space, revolution and resistance: ordinary places and extraordinary events in Caracas / Clara Irazábal and John Foley; title: The struggle for urban territory; title: Human rights activists in Buenos Aires / Susana Kaiser; title: Iconic voids and social identity in a polycentric city: Havana from the nineteenth to the twentieth century / Roberto Segre; title: Unresolved public expressions of anti-trujilloism in Santo Domingo / Robert Alexander González; title: Index.