Model Of Public Space Research Articles

ANALYSIS OF THE KYIV PUBLIC SPACE NETWORK ON THE BASIS OF CONFIGURATION MODELS

The article is devoted to the study of spatial planning structures of cities on the basis of configuration analysis of the network of public spaces. The authors propose a research methodology based on the methods of spatial analysis and syntax, which identified the basic theoretical models of public space: a) centric; b) linear-axial; differing in the nature of spatial connections and social content. The analysis of the city center of Kyiv showed that the structure of its public spaces changed - from a linear axial, typical of ancient Russian cities, to a radial-circular, with a gradual departure from the Dnieper. During the twentieth century, Kyiv was constantly losing pedestrian public spaces. A comparative spatial analysis of the central squares of Kyiv found that they are accessible, but not pedestrian-friendly. Today, they are essentially transport interchanges. The authors have identified significant potential for unused areas that can be turned into attractive public spaces. Given the importance of public space as a carrier of identity and social function, identified the need to consider it as part of the historical and cultural heritage and cultural landscape of the city as a whole. Public spaces should form an integral, continuous pedestrian network that connects the main squares, recreation areas, cultural and memorial sites. It is possible to return the pedestrian function to the center by organizing, in particular, transport tunnels - on the European Square, on St. Michael's, etc. The authors provide examples of possible areas of urban regeneration of the historic city center.

Play in Melbourne City

Play in Melbourne City outlines a series of playful incursions in Melbourne, Australia’s central city that hopes to act as a reminder of the potential power and influence that individual citizens have in disrupting, creating and recovering public space. This is a practice-based exploration that uses Melbourne city as its site. Through a series of playful guerrilla theatre style incursions, the artist creates and embodies fictional characters that spontaneously appear throughout the city. Notions of the carnivalesque are harnessed through the use of masks, costumes and puppetry. Each character investigates and responds to a specific issue of spatial politics within the city, with the works importantly sitting outside of the scheduled template of gallery exhibitions and festivals. For the conceptual framework, the artist draws on Henri Lefebvre’s ideas of the production of space and Chantal Mouffe’s ‘agonistic’ model of public space.

Creating Public Spaces and Practiced Places for Democracy, Discourse, and the Emergence of Civil Society

A question before us in the process of creating public spaces and practiced places for democracy and civil society concerns what democracy means for civil society and what civil society means for democratization of the national state in a globalizing world? In this article the author discusses the meaning of democracy and civil society, and the relation each shares. Following, the author examines the nature of space through the work of [Lefebvre H (1991) The production of space. (Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith). Blackwell, Oxford, Cambridge, Mass] drawing on the work of the French theorist to construct a tripartite model of public space. As well, the author examines the notion of creating practiced places for democracy civil society, drawing on the work of [de Certeau M (1984) The practice of everyday life. University of California Press, Berkeley] to understand the interplay of discourse in reconfiguring space as a practiced place. The author also examines social space and power-geometry as it relates to creating public spaces and practiced places for democracy and civil society. In the final section, the author provides reflections on the work that lies ahead for democratization of the nation-state and the emergence of democratic civil society.

Polytheism, Monotheism and Public Space: Between Levinas and Arendt

In this paper I argue that the Levinasian opposition between the violence of the production of identity and self-presence and its undermining in a charitable disburdening of the self for the sake of the monotheistic ethical other, is unable to provide all the resources required for a politically motivated critique of the present. As a critique of Levinas' almost Manichean opposition between identity and difference, I argue, by appealing to the Arendtian model of public space, that Levinas underestimates our capacity to build and open up societal spaces within which a non-violent polytheistic political difference can proliferate. The identity of the built and legislated can constitute a non-violent stage upon which discursive political differences are played out.

Intrinsic Information in the Making of Public Space

Our lived experience is acted out in space. One of the significant things about our existence in physical space is that we fragment space into meaningful “chunks.” In the process, an inevitable dialectic and a politics have emerged, whereby space has been intellectualized, space-types exist in oppositions, and certain space-types sometimes get privileged to the detriment or demise of others. The public museum serves as a model of public space. As traditional museums experience the challenges of storing and exhibiting physical objects (e.g., challenges of the systematic, mandatory, systemic, logistical, and strategic types), digitization is emerging as a player in the evolution of the public museum. The question of whether human interaction with digitized objects can be a substitute for our interaction with physical objects in physical space is taken up by this article. The article proposes that space-making is effective only to the extent that the process engages such a question in critical dialogue, all with the ultimate goal of taking into account continued cultural vitalization and tacit experiences of human existence.

Feminism, the Public and the Private (review)

Notes on Contributors Introduction I. THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DISTINCTION IN FEMINIST THEORY 1. Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? 2. Context Is All: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship 3. Models of Public Space: Hannah Arendt, the Liberal Tradition and Jurgen Habermas 4. Toward an Agonistic Feminism: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Identity II. GENDER IN THE MODERN LIBERAL PUBLIC SPHERE 5. The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration 6. Regarding Some 'Old Husbands' Tales': Public and Private in Feminist History 7. Gender and Public Access: Women's Politics in Nineteenth-Century America 8. The Inviolable Woman: Feminist Conceptions of Citizenship in Australia 9. The Patriarchal Welfare State III. GENDERED SITES IN THE LATE MODERN PUBLIC SPHERE 10. Live Sex Acts (Parental Advisory: Explicit Material) 11. Interview with Barbara Kruger 12. Sex, Lies, and the Public Sphere: Reflections on the Confirmation of Clarence Thomas 13. On Being the Object of Property 14. All Hyped Up and No Place to Go 15. Celebrity Material: Materialist Feminism and the Culture of Celebrity 16. Hillary's Husband Re-Elected!: The Clinton Marriage of Politics and Power IV. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IDENTITY: QUESTIONS FOR A FEMINIST PUBLIC SPHERE 17. Impartiality and the Civic Public: Some Implications of Feminist Critiques of Moral and Political Theory 18. Wounded Attachments: Late Modern Oppositional Formations 19. Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas or a Politics of Presence? Index

Putting the public back into public space

The exclusion of ‘the public’ from public space has been a growing source of concern in Australian and international urban research. A variety of models of ‘good’ public space are employed to criticise a range of ‘bad’ spatial arrangements and security technologies in contemporary public space. These models often receive less attention than the spaces themselves, but are a fundamental part of any project attempting to ‘put the public back into public space’. This paper compares four models of public space commonly employed by analysts of contemporary public space. Some of the models of ‘good’ public space are themselves inequitable and exclusionary in important respects. Iris Marion Young's“Justice and the Politics of Difference” (1990) develops a multi‐public model which has the potential to address some of these deficiencies, and the paper suggests ways in which this model might be improved.

Situating the Self: gender, community and postmodernism in contemporary ethics

Acknowledgements. Induction. Part I. Modernity, Morality and Ethical:. 1. In the Shadow of Aristotle and Hegel. 2. Autonomy, Modernity and Community. 3. Models of Public Space. 4. Judgements and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Hannah Arendta s Thought. Part II. Autonomy, Feminism and Postmodernism:. 5. The Generalized and the Concrete Other. 6. The Debate over Women and Moral Theory Revisited. 7. Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism. 8. On Hegel, Women and Irony. Index.