On The Plaza : the politics of public space and culture. / txt
by Setha M. Low.
- 1st ed.
- xx, 274 p. ill. ; maps ; 23 cm. book
Include index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-266)
Contents: List of Illustrations ix -- Preface xiii -- Acknoledgements xvii -- Part I: Intytroduction -- Chapter 1: Notes from the Field 3 -- A Personal Account -- Chapter 2: Public Space and Culture 31 -- The Case of The Latin American Plaza -- Part II: Histories -- Chapter 3: The History of the Plaza in San Jose, Costa Rica 47 -- The Political Symbolism of Public Space -- Chapter 4: The European History of the Plaza 84 -- Chapter 5; The Indigenous History of the Plaza 101 -- The Contested Terrain of Architectural Representations -- Part III: Ethnographies -- Chapter 6: Spatializing Culture 127 -- The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space -- Chapter 7: Constructing Difference 154 -- The social and spatial boundaries of everyday life -- Chapter 8: Public Space and protest 180 -- The Plaza as Art and Commodity -- Part IV: Conversations -- Chapter 9: The Park and The Plaza in Costa Rica Literature 207 -- Imagined Places -- Chapter 10 Conversations on the Plaza 219 Remembered Places -- Chapter 11: Public Spaces, Politics and Democracy 238 -- Appendix: Recent Costa Rican Presidents and Their Terms 248 -- Bibliography 249 -- Index 267 --
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Plazas--History.--Latin America Plazas--History.--Costa Rica--San José Latin American Manners and customs Latin America