1st Edition
Loose Space Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life
Tying Down Loose Space Karen A. Franck and Quentin Stevens Appropriation Found Spaces: Freedom of Choice in Public Life Leanne G. Rivlin Open-Ended Space: Urban Streets in Two Cultural Contexts Nisha A. Fernando Betwixt and Between: Building Thresholds, Liminality and Public Space Quentin Stevens Tension Urban Appropriation and Loose Spaces in the Guadalajara Cityscape Bernardo Jiménez-Domínguez Urban Slippage: Smooth and Striated Streetscapes in Bangkok Kim Dovey and Kasama Polakit Transforming Public Space into Sites of Mourning and Free Expression Karen A. Franck and Lynn Paxson Central Park: The Aesthetics of Order and the Appearance of Looseness Julia Nevárez Resistance Heterotopias and the Experience of Porous Space Stavros Stavrides Stalker on Location Peter T. Lang Dead Zones, Outdoor Rooms and the Architecture of Transgression Gil M. Doron Discovery Social Practices, Sensual Excess and Aesthetic Transgression in Industrial Ruins Tim Edensor Unruly and Robust: An Abandoned Industrial River Lynda H. Schneekloth Patterns of the Unplanned Urban Catalyst (Philipp Oswalt, Philipp Misselwitz and Klaus Overmeyer) Annotated Bibliography
Biography
Karen A. Franck is a Professor in the School of Architecture and the Department of Humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Quentin Stevens is a Lecturer in urban design at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.
'What the collection draws attention to is the growing interest in the cultural importance of urban fringes and terrains ... there are challenging ideas in these essays, and the issues raised are timely and indeed urgent.' - Green Places
'A fascinating book ... contrasts with more traditional urban design texts.' - Urban Design
