Publication

1998-07-31 - The MIT Press

Language

English

Word Count

105,000 words, Guess

Page Count

420 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL10238042M
  • ISBN-139780262540971
  • ISBN-100262540975
  • OCLC Control Number34651431
  • Library of Congress Control Number96015527
and 2 more
  • Goodreads1713110
  • LibraryThing2039704

Classifications

  • LCCNA9053.S6D48 1996
  • DDC711/.13
  • LCCNA9053.S6 D48 1996

Description

Since the 1980s a great deal has been written about the relationship between art, architecture, and design, on the one hand, and the city or social space on the other. In Evictions Rosalyn Deutsche investigates the dominant uses of this interdisciplinary discourse, exploring topics that range from public art and homelessness to the repression of feminism in critical theories of public space. The book also intervenes in debates taking place in art, architecture, and urban studies about the meaning of public space, and places these struggles within broader contests over the definition of democracy. Opposing the nostalgic belief that democracy's survival demands a return to the ideal of a unitary public sphere, Deutsche contends that plurality and conflict, far from undermining public space, are the conditions of its possibility and extension.

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  • EvictionsPaperbackThe MIT Press1998-07-31

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