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Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath the Streets examines the activist struggles of communities in New York City—queer youth of color, gardeners, cyclists, and anti-gentrification activists—as they transform streets, piers, and vacant lots into everyday sites for autonomy, imagination, identity formation, creativity, problem solving, and even democratic renewal. Through ethnographic accounts of contests over New York City's public spaces that highlight the tension between resistance and repression, Shepard and Smithsimon identify how changes in the control of public spaces—parks, street corners, and plazas—have reliably foreshadowed elites' shifting designs on the city at large. With an innovative taxonomy of public space, the authors frame the ways spaces as diverse as gated enclaves, luxury shopping malls, collapsing piers and street protests can be understood in relation to one another. Synthesizing the fifty-year history of New York's neoliberal transformation and the social movements which have opposed the process, The Beach Beneath the Streets captures the dynamics at work in the ongoing shaping of urban spaces into places of repression, expression, control, and creativity.

City planning --- Public spaces --- Plazas --- City squares --- Piazzas --- Piazze --- Public squares --- Quadrangles (Plazas) --- Quads (Plazas) --- Squares, City --- Squares, Public --- Cities and towns --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- New York (N.Y.) --- New York (State)

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Environmental planning --- Plazas. --- Space (Architecture) --- Places --- Espace (Architecture) --- Plazas --- Architecture and space --- Space and architectural mass --- Space in architecture --- Architecture --- City planning --- City squares --- Piazzas --- Piazze --- Public squares --- Quadrangles (Plazas) --- Quads (Plazas) --- Squares, City --- Squares, Public --- Cities and towns --- Composition, proportion, etc. --- Negative space (Architecture) --- Central city --- History --- Landscaping --- Space perception --- Urban areas --- Urban planning

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711.4 --- 71.03 --- 711.61 --- Museumplein --- Amsterdam --- Noord-Holland --- Stedenbouw --- Stedenbouw (geschiedenis) --- Pleinen --- Publieke ruimte --- Open ruimte --- Panoramas --- Photography, Panoramic --- Plazas --- City squares --- Piazzas --- Piazze --- Public squares --- Quadrangles (Plazas) --- Quads (Plazas) --- Squares, City --- Squares, Public --- Cities and towns --- Panoramic photography --- Cosmoramas --- Cycloramas --- Diorama --- Museumplein (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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In "The Dutch urban block" and the public realm, Susanne Komossa uses typomorphological research to analyse the development of the Dutch urban block as an architectural model over the past four hundred years. The urban block is the link between city dwellers' everyday lives and the urban public realm. This clearly written and amply documented study calls for the small-scale urban economy and the public realm to be treated as essential components of the city when new urban plans and models are developed.

Bâtiment d'habitation collectif --- City blocks --- Open spaces --- Rotterdam --- Amsterdam --- 711.4(C)(492) --- Stedenbouw ; de publieke ruimte --- Stedenbouw ; Nederland ; woonblokken ; bouwblokken --- Land use --- Blocks (City planning) --- Blocks, City --- City squares --- Squares, City --- Cities and towns --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad ; Nederland --- City blocks - Netherlands --- Open spaces - Netherlands --- Built environment --- Blocks, Urban --- Urban blocks --- City planning

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Bei jedem städtebaulichen Entwurf, bei jedem Eingriff in die räumliche Struktur öffentlicher städtischer Räume stellt sich die Frage nach der Komposition und den räumlichen Qualitäten von Plätzen. Auf welche Weise sind die wesentlichen Elemente beteiligt: Dimension, Proportion, Ausrichtung, Geschlossenheit, Zugänge, Schwerpunkt- und Randausbildung sowie Oberflächen und Materialien? Wie tragen sie zum Charakter eines Stadtraumes bei, der sich zur Identifikation der Bewohner anbietet?Für aktuelle Entwürfe unterstützt der Vergleich mit historischen Beispielen die Vorstellung räumlicher Wirkung. Ähnlich einem Grundrissatlas für Gebäude ermöglicht es der Platzatlas, räumliche Bedingungen für Bewegung und Aufenthalt anhand vergleichbarer existierender Plätze einzuschätzen. Für die meisten Rahmenbedingungen (Form, Größe, Lage, Topographie usw.) kann der Planer hier ein Vergleichsbeispiel finden.70 europäische Plätze werden mit den wichtigsten Charakteristika in Schwarzplan, Grundriss, Schnitt und Axonometrie in einheitlichem Maßstab präsentiert und erläutert. The question of composition and spatial qualities arises in every urban design concept or intervention in the spatial structure of urban public squares. How are the essential elements involved: dimension, proportion, alignment, cohesion, accesses, shaping of focus point and of edges like surfaces and materials? How do they contribute to a character of urban space with which residents can identify? Comparing historical examples with current designs aids one in visualizing spatial effect. Similar to a floor plan manual for buildings, Squares allows the user to evaluate spatial conditions for movement and rest based on comparable existing urban squares. The book offers the planner a comparative example for most conditions (shape, size, location, topography, and so on). Seventy European urban squares are presented and explained with the most important characteristics in a consistent manner in as-built plan, ground plan, section, and axonometric projection.

Places --- Espaces publics --- Parken ; Europa --- Europa --- 711.61 --- 711.4 --- 72.036 --- Pleinen --- Publieke ruimte --- Openbare ruimte --- Stedenbouw --- Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- 20ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Public spaces --- Plazas --- Garden squares --- Squares --- Designs and plans --- Dessins et plans --- (Historische) pleinen ; in Europese steden --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; pleinen, open ruimten --- City squares --- Piazzas --- Piazze --- Public squares --- Quadrangles (Plazas) --- Quads (Plazas) --- Squares, City --- Squares, Public --- Cities and towns