Visualising the riverbank

Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Cristina Mattiucci

City, 2012, vol. 16, issue 1-2, 221-234

Abstract: Drawing on ethnographic observation of a tract of urban riverbank in the city of Trento, in northern Italy, we attempt to link phenomenological observation of social interaction in public places with larger political concerns about contemporary urban public space. While agreeing with Low et al . ( Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space & Cultural Diversity . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005) that in order to foster public spaces it is necessary to accommodate the differences in the ways social classes and ethnic groups use and value urban sites, we also argue that one should be wary of planning hubris—which can occur in even 'good-willed’ planning, and leads to the creation of domesticated and formalised, but also inherently restricted, spaces for encountering differences.

Date: 2012
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