Fragmented Dhaka
Subtitle: analysing everyday life with Henri Lefebvre's Theory of production of space
By: Elisa T. Bertuzzo
Series: Sozialgeographische bibliothek : -- Bd. 10; Sozialgeographische Bibliothek -- Bd. 10.
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9783515094047
Subjects: Soziologie; Philosophy; Criticism and interpretation; Human geography; Verstädterung; Raumverhalten; Economic conditions; Social conditions; City planning; Stadtleben
Description: "Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka is one of the world's fastest growing cities, passing from a population of one million to twelve million people in its extended area with three decades (1970-2000). This confronts its inhabitants , observers as well as planners with contradictions that ask for redefining our ways of living in and thinking about the city. In particular, Western conceptions of public space and urban societies are challenged by a symptomatic fragmentation. This empirical study observes the mega city's everyday spaces and situations directly and with a non-generalising approach. By means of ethnographic field research it describes the production of "enriched" or multi functional spaces through everyday life practices, recognising in the inhabitants' appropriation and adaptation processes a potential for sustainable mixed forms of urban development. For the first time, Henri Lefebvre's theory of production of space is applied with all of its implications to an empirical study. City and urbanity emerge then as the result of three continuously interacting and interdependent production processes: physical, mental , and social."--p. 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-226)
Table of contents: title: 1. In medias res; title: 2. The production of space through practices of everyday life; title: 3. Methodology; title: 4. Physical space - spatial practice; title: 5. Mental space - representations of space; title: 6. Social space - representational spaces; title: 7. Trying to bring the elements together.