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The Empty Place

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Democracy and Public Space

The Empty Place

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The Empty Place book

Democracy and Public Space
ByTeresa Hoskyns
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 4 July 2014
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315851617
Pages 222
eBook ISBN 9781315851617
Subjects Built Environment
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Hoskyns, T. (2014). The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315851617

ABSTRACT

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 Jürgen 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |16 pages

Introduction: democracy and public space – theory and practice

part |2 pages

Part I Theorising democracy as a spatial practice

chapter 1|11 pages

Ancient Greece and the tri-partite model of democracy

chapter 2|27 pages

From politics to the political: democracy as a spatial practice

chapter 3|17 pages

Dis-locations of democracy: democracy and public space

chapter 4|19 pages

The production of democratic public space

part |2 pages

Part II Participatory spatial practices: architectural, feminist and participatory democracy

chapter 5|18 pages

From antagonism to agonism on Regent’s Park Estate

chapter 6|21 pages

Feminists taking the empty place: the construction of political identity

chapter 7|41 pages

Social forums and the spaces of participatory democracy

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