222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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In The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space Teresa Hoskyns explores the relationship of public space to democracy by relating different theories of democracy in political philosophy to spatial theory and spatial and political practice.
Establishing the theoretical basis for the study of public space, Hoskyns examines the rise of representative democracy and investigates contemporary... Read more
Introduction: Democracy and Public Space: Theory and Practice Section 1 Theorising Democracy as a Spatial Practice 1. Ancient Greece and the Tri-partite Model of Democracy 2. From Politics to the Political 3. Dislocations of Democracy 4. The Production of Democratic Public Space Section 2 Participatory Spatial Practices 5. Antagonism to Agonism on Regents Park Estate 6. Feminists Taking the Empty Place 7. Social Forums and Spaces of Participatory Democracy Conclusion: The Empty Place
Biography
Teresa Hoskyns is an architect and lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK.
