Urban Interstices

Description:

Bringing together a team of international scholars with an interest in urban transformations, spatial justice and territoriality, this volume questions how the interstice is related to the emerging processes of partitioning, enclave-making and zoning, showing how in-between spaces are intimately related to larger flows, networks, territories and boundaries. Illustrated with a range of case studies from places such as the US, Quebec, the UK, Italy, Gaza, Iraq, India, and South-east Asia, the volume analyses the place and function of interstitial locales in both a 'disciplined' urban space and a disordered space conceptualized through the notions of 'excess', 'danger', and 'threat'.

subjects: Public spaces,  City planning,  Urbanization,  Sociology, urban,  Case studies,  Urban Sociology,  Espaces publics,  Études de cas,  Urbanisation,  Sociologie urbaine,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Public Policy,  Regional Planning,  Stadsplanering,  Offentliga platser,  Urbanisering