Temporary Appropriation in Cities Human Spatialisation in Public Spa
This book conceptualises and illustrates temporary appropriation as an urban phenomenon, exploring its contributions to citizenship, urban social sustainability and urban health. It explains how some forms of appropriation can be subversive, existing in a
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Temporary Appropriation in Cities Human Spatialisation in Public Spaces and Community Resilience
Temporary Appropriation in Cities
Alessandro Melis Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez James Thompson •
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Temporary Appropriation in Cities Human Spatialisation in Public Spaces and Community Resilience
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Editors Alessandro Melis School of Architecture University of Portsmouth Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez School of Architecture University of Portsmouth Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
James Thompson School of Design University of Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-3-030-32119-2 ISBN 978-3-030-32120-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32120-8
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Foreword
The Changing Social and Spatial Character of Public Space and Its Modus Operandi Cities are many things. At their best, they offer essential breathing spaces that facilitate social inclusion and enable a diverse range of informal activities. Social inclusion is important, as it is the process by which efforts are made to ensure equal opportunities—that everyone, regardless of their background, can achieve their full potential in life. Gentrification and growing privatization of space are constant threats to this potential. Efforts include policies and actions that promote equal access to public services and space, as well as enable citizen’s participation in the decision-making processes that affect their lives in cities. The following chapters presented in this book look at the ways in which ‘marginal groups’ appropriate these informal spaces. The characteristics of informal, interstitial spaces within the contemporar
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