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Reconstituting the Urban Commons: Public Space, Social Capital and the Project of Urbanism
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Abstract This article outlines a framework for connecting design-oriented research on accommodating and encouraging social interaction in public space with investigation of broader questions regarding civic engagement, social justice and democratic governance. How can we define the “kind of problem a city is... mehr
This article outlines a framework for connecting design-oriented research on accommodating and encouraging social interaction in public space with investigation of broader questions regarding civic engagement, social justice and democratic governance. How can we define the “kind of problem a city is” (Jacobs, 1961), simultaneously attending to the social processes at stake in urban places, the spatial ordering of urban form and the construction of the forms of agency that enable us to make better places on purpose? How can empirical research be connected more systematically to theories of democratic governance, with clear implications for urban design, urban and regional planning as professional practice? This framework connects three distinct theoretical moves: (1) understanding the sociological implications of public space as an urban commons, (2) connecting the making of public space to research on social capital and collective efficacy, and (3) understanding recent tendencies in the discipline of urban design in terms of the social construction of a “program of action” (Latour, 1992) at the heart of the professional practices relevant to the built environment.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
öffentlicher Raum; Sozialkapital; Stadt
Klassifikation
Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
design-oriented research; urban commons
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 169-182
Zeitschriftentitel
Urban Planning, 4 (2019) 2
Heftthema
Public Space in the New Urban Agenda: Research into Implementation
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)