People's Spaces
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People's Spaces

Coping, Familiarizing, Creating

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People's Spaces

Coping, Familiarizing, Creating

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Who controls space? Powerful corporations, institutions, and individuals have great power to create physical and political space through income and influence. People's Spaces attempts to understand the struggle between people and institutions in the spaces they make.

Current literature on cities and planning often looks at popular resistance to institutional authority through open, mass-movement protest. These views overlook the fact that subaltern classes are not often afforded the luxury of open, organized political protest. People's Spaces investigates individual's diverse approaches in reconciling the difference between their spatial needs and spatial availability. Through case studies in Southeast Asia, India, Nepal, and Central Asia, the book explores how people accommodate their spatial needs for everyday activities and cultural practices within a larger abstract spatial context produced by the power-holders.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
ISBN
9781317962588
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Urban Planning & Landscaping

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. CONTENTS
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Seeing and Engaging Peopleā€™s Spaces: Deprivations and Challenges
  9. 1 Indigenizing the Colonial City: The Ceylonese Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Colombo
  10. 2 Feminizing the White Male City: Women Gaining Access to Colonial Colombo
  11. 3 Spaces of Survival: Peopleā€™s Adaptation of a War Zone in Sri Lanka
  12. 4 From Resisting to Familiarizing Impositions: Living in the World Heritage Site at Galle Fort, Sri Lanka
  13. 5 Beginning Spaces: Young Peopleā€™s Struggles for Dwellings in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
  14. 6 Spaces of Recovery: Rebuilding Lives after the Tsunami in Kalametiya
  15. 7 Protecting the Habitat: Redevelopment, Illegibility, and the Strength of Dharavi
  16. 8 Spaces of Modernity: Daanchi between Vernacular and Modern
  17. 9 Everyday Building: The Production of the Middle-Class Built-Environment in Gangtok, India
  18. 10 Peopleā€™s Neighborhood Center: Handiya in Sri Lanka
  19. 11 Conclusions: Production of Social Space: From Coping with Provided and Imposed Spaces to Creating Their Own
  20. Index