163 NINE Conflict over public space Laurel Paget-Seekins Introduction Bus Rapid Transit’s (BRT) promise for sustainability is more than improving public transit accessibility, it is also that by design BRT dedicates public space for bus and, in some cases, non-motorised users. Shifting space away from personal cars is a radical act that can have impacts beyond benefits for bus operations. It has the potential to reshape urban development away from car-centred cities. However, achieving this potential will result in conflict. The reality is that
67 FIVE Public spaces of Kopčany We left the lodging house and a few children were already awaiting us near the entrance to the building. A girl halted one of the colleagues and screamed at her for something while the other colleague took me down the stairs and introduced me to other children. I ended up with a group of young boys who were playing near a puddle at the verge of a humpy parking place, probably a result of a clogged sewer. We brought skipping ropes for the children and we played with them while I started my first conversations in the
1 ONE Introduction: Cities and public space [To reveal the production of space] we should have to look at history itself in a new light. We should have to study not only the history of space, but also the history of representations along with that of their relationships – with each other, with practice, and with ideology. History would have to take in not only the genesis of these spaces but also, and especially, their interconnections, distortions, displacements, mutual interconnections, and their links with the spatial practice of the particular
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113 SIX Zoning public space 1: hybrid surveillance and state power Introduction On 28 September 1862 the Workingmen’s Garibaldian Committee organised a sympathy meeting at Hyde Park, London for Giuseppe Garibaldi, leader of the Italian Risorgimento, who was injured and had been captured at Aspromonte during the Second Italian War of Independence. Garibaldi was an immensely popular figure among all sections of British society. Members of the working class applauded Garibaldi’s perceived radicalism, while middle-class supporters considered Garibaldi to be a
133 SEVEN Zoning public space 2: gentrification, community publics and CCTV Introduction Cities are not mere repositories of wider global processes. Huge swathes of economic activity still take place domestically, and indeed cities are structured through different local and regional strategic interests in which certain policies will favour some to the detriment of others. It is in this sense that architects and city planners become key organic intellectuals in local communities for the articulation of hegemonic ideas associated with specific state projects
Introduction This chapter explores Australian Sudanese and South Sudanese youths’ perspectives on their experiences within public spaces in the city of Melbourne. Australia has large Sudanese and South Sudanese communities, with the city of Melbourne being ‘home to the largest number of Sudan- or South Sudan-born residents’ ( Robinson, 2013 , p 22). Since the early 2000s, approximately 50,000 people from sub-Saharan African nations have been settled in Australia under the country’s Humanitarian Entrant Programme for refugees ( DSS, 2016 ; Baak, 2019 ). It
