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The Empty Place - Democracy and Public Space (Hardcover, New)
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The Empty Place - Democracy and Public Space (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
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In The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space Teresa Hoskyns
explores the relationship of public space to democracy by relating
different theories of democracy in political philosophy to spatial
theory and spatial and political practice. Establishing the
theoretical basis for the study of public space, Hoskyns examines
the rise of representative democracy and investigates contemporary
theories for the future of democracy, focusing on the Chantal
Mouffe's agonistic model and the civil society model of Jurgen
Habermas. She argues that these models of participatory democracy
can co-exist and are necessarily spatial. The book then provides
diverse perspectives on how the role of physical public space is
articulated through three modes of participatory spatial practice.
The first focuses on issues of participation in architectural
practice through a set of projects exploring the 'open spaces' of a
postwar housing estate in Euston. The second examines the role of
space in the construction of democratic identity through a feminist
architecture/art collective, producing space through writing,
performance and events. The third explores participatory political
democratic practice through social forums at global, European and
city levels. Hoskyns concludes that participatory democracy
requires a conception of public space as the empty place, allowing
different models and practices of democracy to co-exist.
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