Public Space/Contested Space: Imagination and Occupation

It Is Not Possible To Be Alive Today In The United States Without Feeling The Influence Of The Political Climate On The Spaces Where People Live, Work And Form Communities. Public Space/contested Space Illustrates The Ways In Which Creative Interventions In Public Space Have Constituted A Significant Dimension Of Contemporary Political Action, And How This Space Can Both Reflect And Spur Economic And Cultural Change. Drawing Insight From A Range Of Disciplines And Fields, The Essays In This Volume Assess The Effectiveness Of Protest Movements That Deploy Bodies In Urban Space, And Social Projects That Build Communities While Also Exposing Inequalities And Presenting New Political Narratives. With Sections Exploring The Built Environment, Artists, And Activists And Public Space, The Book Brings Together The Diverse Voices To Reveal The Complexities And Politicization Of Public Space Within The United States. Public Space/contested Space Provides A Significant Contribution To An Understudied Dimension Of Contemporary Political Action And Will Be Resource To Students Of Urban Studies And Planning, Architecture, Sociology, Art History, And Human Geography-- Introduction : Public Space/contested Space / Kevin D. Murphy And Sally O'driscoll -- Section 1. The Built Environment -- Process, Product, Program : The Architect As Facilitator Of Social Change / Garrett Nelli, Ala -- The Search For New Forms : Black Power And The Making Of The Postmodern City / Brian D. Goldstein -- Centro Cultural Móvil : Critical Service Learning And Design With Latinx Farmworkers / Silvina Lopez And Erin Sassin -- Inside Out : Private Space On Public Display In Modern And Contemporary Demolition Art / Kevin D. Murphy -- Section 2. Artists And Public Space -- Intervention : Indigo / Laura Anderson Barbata -- No Matter Where We Move, We Look At The Same Moon : A Half-century Between The Pacific And Stars / Jerome Reyes And Tammy Ko Robinson -- Silenced Subversions : Critical Messages Exhibition At Artemisia Gallery, Chicago (1985) / James Gardner-huggett -- International Revolution By Design : The Art Of Tanya Aguiñiga / Sheila Pope -- Section 3. Activists And Urban Space -- Occupying Domesticity : Reproductive Labor In Zuccotti Park / Susan Fraiman -- Occupy Wall Street : Mapping A Movement / Marlisa Wise -- Tent City, Usa : The Growth Of America's Homeless Encampments And How Communities Are Responding / Maria Foscarinis And Eric Tars -- Bodies In Space : A Conversation With L.a. Kauffman / L.a. Kauffman With Sally O'driscoll. Edited By Kevin D. Murphy And Sally O'driscoll. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.