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Public Everyday Space: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona by Megan Saltzman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Public Everyday Space: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona about?

This book explores how everyday practices in public space (sitting, playing, walking, etc.) challenge the increase of top-down control in the global city. Public Everyday Space focuses on post-Olympic Barcelona—a time of unprecedented levels of gentrification, branding, mass tourism, and immigration. Drawing from examples observed in public spaces (streets, plazas, sidewalks, and empty lots), as well as in cultural representation (film, photography, literature), this book exposes the quiet agency of those excluded from urban decision-making but who nonetheless find ways to carve out spatial autonomy for themselves. Absent from the map or postcard, the quicksilver spatial phenomena documented in this book can make us rethink our definitions of culture, politics, inclusion, legality, architecture, urban planning, and public space.

Who reads Public Everyday Space: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona?

Author

Megan Saltzman

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9783031577963

Category

nonfiction