The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space

ISBN-13: 9780415724371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 222 str.

Teresa Hoskyns

Opis

In this work 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 theories for the future of democracy, focusing on the Chantal Mouffe's agonistic model and the civil society model of Jurgen Habermas.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Teresa Hoskyns is an architect and lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK.