Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space

by Patrick Turmel and Mark Kingwell

Book Overview

There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanescent and multidimensional concept that too often escapes scrutiny.

The essays in Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554581532
• ISBN13: 9781554581535
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"