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This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the precolonial to colonial transition in an urban context, by focusing on the changing distribution, character and role of public spaces and buildings. The volume focuses on three case study regions: East African coast, North-West Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula. The regions are selected to provide a novel perspective on the socio-spatial impact of colonialism on the public life of urban settlements, driven by different political forces, in different geographical contexts and time periods. The three study areas are also linked by sharing several features of urban lifestyle such as the role of trade and the influence of religion, Islam in particular. The intertwined influence of socio-spatial urban characteristics on public life is presented on a range of case studies selected from Africa and southern Europe. The approaches are rooted in archaeological thinking on the built environment as material culture and incorporate critical interpretation of ethnographies and historical accounts on both the precolonial and colonial eras. This volume is of interest to archaeologists and researchers working in urban history, anthropology, and heritage.

Place as a theory fails to clearly articulate linkages between meaning and physical settings for chosen activities in public space. In addressing these issues, the meaning of user behaviour in public space is described by affective and cognitive images of the physical setting; a theoretical conceptualisation of individual experiences which include overlapping social, cultural, and educational contexts. The results of a survey of 160 users across four public spaces found that affect framed cognitive evaluations of design elements for anticipated behaviour. A two-stage process suggesting place-making in design need to shift emphases from articulating preferences to enabling interpretation and opportunity. Within this theoretical framework, the argument is presented that a focus on aligning design with public expectation at a point in time will lead to temporal popularity of location, to popular places that will be presented for redevelopment at some future point in time when their popularity declines.

Urban management is a task that must involve the Public concept in its entire dimension: public space, type of life related to it, people that crowds it. This text presents a series of considerations about the problems that urban management has to cope with, when power centralization conditions are present. The role of both, State and society, as well as material conditions and politics, are several of the elements to be considered. ; La gestión urbana es una tarea que debe involucrar el concepto de lo público en toda su dimensión: el espacio público, la vida que en él ocurre, la gente que lo colma. El texto presenta una serie de reflexiones alrededor de los problemas a los que se enfrenta la gestión urbana cuando se presentan condiciones de centralización del poder. El papel del Estado y de la sociedad, así como las condiciones materiales y la política, hacen parte de los elementos a considerar.

The use and nature of public space -- Public space through history -- Contemporary debates and public space -- Models of public space management -- One country, multiple endemic public space management problems -- One country, twenty innovative public space management authorities -- Eleven countries, eleven innovative cities--the context for open space management -- Eleven innovative cities, many ways forward--the practice of open space management -- One iconic civic space--managing times square, new york -- Two linked iconic civic spaces managing leicester square and piccadilly circus, london -- Theory, practice and real people

Why is public space disappearing? Why is this disappearance important to democratic politics and how has it become an international phenomenon? Public spaces are no longer democratic spaces, but instead centres of private commerce and consumption, and even surveillance and police control. "The Politics of Public Space" extends the focus of current work on public space to include a consideration of the transnational - in the sense of moving people and transformations in the nation or state - to expand our definition of the 'public' and public space. Ultimately, public spaces are one of the last

Children and young people regard the external physical environment as important for their needs. Their use of space varies according to age and circumstance and includes designated play and leisure facilities as well as other informal areas within their neighbourhoods. However, children have little influence over the development of public space as they do not have the opportunity to contribute their views to local processes. This paper explores children's and young people's views and experience of public space in regeneration areas. It considers whether children's perspectives are accurately reflected in public policy. It draws on primary research with young people aged ten to 14 years and representatives from local organisations in a disadvantaged urban area in Scotland.

Philip McDermott (2012), Migrant Languages in the Public Space: A Case Study from Northern Ireland (Münster: LIT), 320 pp., Pb: €29.90, ISBN: 978-3643800992.

The book aims at nurturing theoretic reflection on the city and the territory and working out and applying methods and techniques for improving our physical and social landscapes. The main issue is developed around the projectual dimension, with the objective of visualising both the city and the territory from a particular viewpoint, which singles out the territorial dimension as the city's space of communication and negotiation. Issues that characterise the dynamics of city development will be faced, such as the new, fresh relations between urban societies and physical space, the right to the city, urban equity, the project for the physical city as a means to reveal civitas, signs of new social cohesiveness, the sense of contemporary public space and the sustainability of urban development.

Public space is a topic of great interest for urban scholars and urban planners. Such space, like parks, sidewalks, and plazas, it is argued, can provide the common grounds where the inhabitants of a city meet, exchange ideas, even engage in a variety of cultural performances. This article reports on fieldwork about the use of public space in Shanghai today. We find a great diversity of uses, ranging from vendors who sell their wares to people who engage in heated and extensive political discussions to performers of Beijing opera and ballroom dancing. We also find that the local authorities use a light, and sometimes covert, hand in their oversight of inhabitants in such spaces. Finally, we discover that powerful social differences and inequalities between native inhabitants and working–class migrants, which have emerged during the period of economic reform and market transition, are now actively in evidence in the quality and use of public space in Shanghai. the article puts these findings within a broader theoretical context, concluding in the end that for many—though not all—inhabitants  public man is alive and well in Shanghai.

This article is considered important based on the existence of religious-social phenomena that occur in the Ngapeh hamlet, Rejoagung village, Ngoro, Jombang district. In the Ngapeh hamlet community, there are three religions that live in harmony and harmony, namely Islam, Christianity and Hinduism. Islam is the majority religious group while Christians and Hindus are minority religious groups. Ngapeh Hamlet in Rejoagung Village can be said to be a unique area. Imagine a hamlet in the context of a small life but there is no domination of power from the majority of the people. The Muslim Ummah as the majority group is the prime mover in maintaining harmony between adherents of one religion and another. Christians and Hindus as minority groups do not experience discrimination from other ummah (Muslims). They are free to practice their beliefs and worship according to their respective religions. The research question to be answered in this study is how the pattern of religious interaction among the community in Rejoagung village, Ngoro sub-district, Jombang district, especially what occurs in Ngapah hamlet in implementing their diversity in public space as a form of a religious community ethics. To answer this question, in this study, Habermas' theory of communicative action is used which states that religious ethics is addressed by the public. In this paper it is found that the ethics of the religious community in public spaces are based on the role and function of religion itself. The function of religion in this paper is found three functions. First, religion as a force / dogma, religion as a sacred thing and religion as a spiritual act. Based on these three functions of religion, then based on Habermas's theory of discourse that in carrying out religious precepts in the Rejoagung village community, it is not only based on good things and is closed from political interests but religion must be a person's view of life and become a guide in ethics in the room. public.