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.

Author: Megan Saltzman
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/03/2024
Series: Hispanic Urban Studies
Pages: 155
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.33h x 6.21w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9783031577956
2024 Edition

About the Author

Megan Saltzman, PhD, teaches in the Department of Spanish, Latina/o/x and Latin American and Studies at Mount Holyoke College, USA and in the Five College Consortium of Massachusetts Architectural Studies Program.