1st Edition
The Social Quality of Public Space Integration, Strategy, Subjectivation
Social quality of public space: An introduction
Letteria G. Fassari and Martina Löw
Part I: The concept of quality
1. Quality of space through experience
Letteria G. Fassari
2. Considering a sociology of quality: Experiences of a social researcher sitting on an urban planning jury
Martina Löw
3. Public life and the spatial subconscious: What was blocked and unlocked due to lockdown, and why we should care
Dominik Bartmanski
4. The qualities of mimetic space: Staging nature at botanical gardens
Jamie-Scott Baxter and Séverine Marguin
Part II Integration: Belonging, identity, and social cohesion
5. Decoding Berlin’s urban fabric: An in-depth study of the role of spatial quality in shaping quality of life and its socio-demographic determinants
Diana Chvirova and Elifcan Karacan
6. Different logics in the debate on public space quality in Rome
Antonio Famiglietti
7. School in/as public space: Constructing quality in action
Assunta Viteritti and Beate Weyland
Part III Strategy: Competition, control, and institutions
8. Quality of public space in urban transformation policies: For a political sociology of next generation EU in Rome
Ernesto d’Albergo, Giorgio Giovanelli, and Giulio Moini
9. What is a good border? Qualities of public spaces in cross-border planning projects in the Basel metropolitan area
Vivien Sommer
10. Public space plays itself: The significance of social media in the emerging popularization of public spaces
Veljko Marković
Part IV Subjectivation: Refiguration, resistance, and affirmation
11. The quality of public space from the margins
Paolo Do, Letteria G. Fassari, and Gioia Pompili
12. The aesthetic turn of public space: Quality without shadow?
Letteria G. Fassari and Emanuela Spanò
13. Contested urban quality: Conflicts over urban space between studentification, hipster gentrification, and utopias in San Lorenzo, Rome
Matteo Cerasoli and Giuseppe Ricotta
Biography
Letteria G. Fassari is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Economics at Sapienza University, Italy. Her research interests focus on cultural sociology, social aesthetics, space, and performance. She is the founder of the Social Aesthetics Research Unit at Sapienza.
Martina Löw is Professor of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Her areas of specialization and research are sociological theory, urban sociology, social theory of space, and cultural sociology. She is head of the Collaborative Research Center “Re-Figuration of Spaces” (funded by the German Research Foundation/DFG).
