Public Space, Peace, and Everyday Life

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction: Peace as spatial and relational practice emerging in everyday public spaces

Christine Mady, Stefania Ragozino and Karina Landman

Part I – COMFORT

Chapter 1 New spaces of social and ethical engagement of fashion in post-socialist cities

Monika Murzyn-Kupisz

Chapter 2 Navigating Comfort and Peace: The Social Production of peace and comfort in Tshwane’s Public Spaces

Kundani Makakavhule

Chapter 3 Un-Making Comfort, Re-Making the Commons: Entangled Histories of Domestic and Public Space Dispossession 

Maria Anita Palumbo

Part II – NEGOTIATION

Chapter 4 Micro-negotiations of Fragile Peace: Public spaces and urban cultures in Johannesburg North

Vuyiswa Letsoko and Eric Makoni

Chapter 5 Non-violent struggles and collective heritage-making as emancipatory: Insights from Southern Italy

Giusy Pappalardo

Chapter 6 Observing everyday negotiations of informality: Street vendors’ political and spatial agency in Central Cúcuta, Colombia

Diego Andres Pinzon Quesada

Chapter 7 Public spaces in remote areas: Differing visions of the future 

Matej Nikšič

Part III – CO-EXISTENCE

Chapter 8 Co-existence in the planning and use of a multifunctional public space – case Maunula House in Helsinki 

Emilia Palonen, Kanerva Kuokkanen and Eurídice Hernández

Chapter 9 What now with all the affects? Affective urbanism between hope and disillusionment 

Tihomir Viderman

Chapter 10 Inhabiting the night, conflict, negotiation and co-existence in public spaces after dark

Andres F. Ramirez, Claire Nelischer and Gus Wendel

Chapter 11 Re-imagining contested urban peripheries as biocultural habitats for kinship in the City of Tshwane

Dayle Shand

Commentary: Time to Crack out of our Shell.  A Conversation with Jana Nakhal to reflect on Spatial Justice in Unfair Territories 

Chiara Belingardi, Stefania Ragozino and Jana Nakhal

Conclusion: How crucial is peace in everyday public space?

Christine Mady, Stefania Ragozino and Karina Landman

Index

Biography

Christine Mady is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Aalto University since 2022. Prior to that, she was Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon, and was Department Head 2016-2020. Christine’s research addresses diverse public space aspects in unstable contexts.  Her research on Beirut’s public spaces established alternative readings related to instability, divides, securitisation, violence, space-time and implications on everyday life. Christine is a member of the Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Thematic Group on Public Spaces and Urban Cultures, and member of its coordinating team since 2019.

Stefania Ragozino is Senior Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy. She is interested in the relational and systemic dimensions of urban transformative processes focusing on the public dimension of urban space and its value of spatial justice, the roles 
and modes of people and groups involvement in urban care practices and decision-making processes, with a feminist perspective of the city. She is part of the core working team of the AESOP Thematic Group Public Spaces and Urban Cultures, of which she was Main Coordinator in 2021-2023 and is currently member of the Advisory Board.

Karina Landman is a Professor in City Planning, with a background in Urban Design and Architecture. She is the Head of the Department of Town & Regional Planning and the Chair of the School of the Built Environment. Her work focuses on spatial transformation, including research related to sustainable neighbourhoods, regenerative and resilient cities, and public space. The work on public space revolves around issues of transformation, inclusivity, regeneration, and resilience. She has published a book, “Evolving Public Space in South Africa” (Routledge) in 2019.