A study of five major urban parks, including new yorks prospect park and philadelphias independence national historical park, that offers a blueprint for promoting and maintaining cultural diversity in parks around the world. A decade later, carlos santana, a mexican immigrant, blended puentes tune with rock and roll, which brought it to the attention of national audiences. The microgeographies of gender, class, and generation in the costa rican plaza setha m. The people, place, and space reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit. U5d83 catherine bauer wurster 19051964 modern housing na7550. Pdf download for urban public spaces as representations of culture, open epub for. On the plaza the politics of public space and culture by. In place attachment, edited by irwin altman and setha m. The examination of the public space as art and commodity provides a glimpse of the contradictions between the artistic and often idealized representational purposes of. Setha low is professor of anthropology and environmental psychology at the cuny graduate center. Low explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social and economic relations within its city. Setha low, and a growing literature on historic and contemporary flushing, queens. Low, towards an anthropological theory of space and place, semiotica, 2009. Setha low this book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographicallybased spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize.
Jul 05, 2010 in this wideranging, multidisciplinary study, setha m. This endeavor involves social and political economic analyses of public space as. On the plaza the politics of public space and culture by setha m. Setha low introduction through longterm research and collaborative projects i have found that spatializing culture i. Rethinking urban parks public space and cultural diversity. I discuss four areas of spatialcultural analysishistorical emergence, sociopolitical and economic structuring, patterns of social use, and experiential meaningsas a means of working out of the methodological implications of broader social construction theoretical. Place attachment is the symbolic relationship formed by people giving culturally shared emotionalaffective meanings to a particular space or piece of land that provides the basis for the individuals and groups understanding of and relation to the environment. This chapter applies this definition of place attachment in order to identify a range of types of place attachment in. Setha low spatializing culture people, place, and space.
This article examines the relationship of public space and the public sphere as a starting point for tracing the dialogic nature of neil smiths and my thinking reflected in the introduction of the politics of public space smith and low 2006 to our disagreements over ethnography and political ideology. In this wideranging, multidisciplinary study, setha m. Place altachment, edited by irwin altman and setha m. The politics of public space 1st edition setha low neil.
Material culture and the construction of social reality in spanish america. Power, domination, and resistance in public spaceon the. Power, domination, and resistance in public space on the plaza. Low 2940 guilford avenue baltimore, md 21216 usa 1. U6l69 elizabeth platerzyberk 1950 towns and townmaking principles na9051. University of utah environmental psychologist setha low 1992 speaks of the importance, for example, of pilgrimage in creating place bonds. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. The politics of public space and culture find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. The politics of public space and culture 2000, and theorizing the city edited, 1999. In 1990 setha low, with the help of dana taplin and suzanne scheld, founded the public space research group psrg within the center for human environments at the graduate school and university center of the city university of new york to address these issues.
Low centers her study on two plazas in san joseacute. When the plaza was conceived, global capital was already fueling the costa rican economy low, 2010, p. Low centers her study on two plazas in san jose, costa rica, with comparisons to. Setha low is professor of anthropology, earth and environmental sciences geography, environmental psychology and womens studies at the graduate center, city university of new york, usa. Pilgrimage to a place, the desire to visit a place, and participation in a celebratory event such as a parade or festival is a special kind of place attachment, in. Jen jack gieseking, william mangold, cindi katz, setha low, susan saegert eds. In this article i explore how an integrated approach to the anthropological study of urban space would work ethnographically.
Spatial inequality and social exclusion american anthropologist vol. In order to discuss how cultura remains a cultural theme in the urban plaza the everyday life and social. Setha low is professor of environmental psychology and anthropology and director of the public space research group at the graduate center of the city. When the new yorkborn tito puente composed oye como va. About the editors the people, place, and space reader. Programs in environmental psychology and anthropology, gradu ate school and university center of the city university of new york, new york, new york 10036. How culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the. Rethinking urban parks public space and cultural diversity by. Low centers her study on two plazas in san jose, costa rica, with comparisons to public plazas in the united. Power, domination, and resistance in public spaceon the plaza. Oct 10, 2017 as fewer shoppers came downtown, the fulton mall became a place where community events were held in mariposa plaza, the largest of the open areas in the three block mall setting, and a free speech stage was created as a commemoration of the site of a labor protest in the 1920s. Midwestern landscape architecture edited by william h. Setha low distinguished lectures 108th annual meeting of the american anthropological association, philadelphia, pennsylvania, december 26, 2009 claiming space for an engaged anthropology. Space planning for commercial office interiors 1st.
Low also served as a conservation guest scholar at the getty conservation institute. Low, setha, and denise lawrencezu iga 2003 edition the anthropology of space and place. Kelly spurles, this is different, this is the plaza. She is former president of the american anthropological association and served as deputy chair of the world council of anthropological associations. Lows book on the plazathe politics of public space and culture discusses the interrelationship of public space and culture. Low is professor of environmental psychology and anthropology and director of the public space research group at the graduate center, city university of new york. Low city university of new york united states of america abstract. Low has artfully captured this world of latin american public sociability in her meticulous ethnographic and cultural study of the politics and the social. The politics of public space 1st edition setha low.
The politics of public space i edited by setha low and neil smith. Space planning for commercial office interiors provides a thorough and engaging look at the entire process of space planning, from meeting the client for the first time to delivering a beautifully rendered and creative space plan that addresses all of that clients needs. In step with the growing interest in place attachment, this volume examines the phenomena from the perspective of several disciplinesincluding anthropology, folklore, and psychologyand points towards promising directions of future research. In the introduction of the politics of public space smith and low 2006, neil and i highlight the historical and geographical specificity of politicized public space to encourage the possibility of a different kind of politics. The latin american central plaza as functional space. She started her career as an assistant and associate professor of landscape architecture and regional planning, city and regional planning, and anthropology at the university of pennsylvania. Tarry hum and students of queens college, is now complete and is being made available for public use. Neil smith is distinguished professor of geography and anthropology.