ebooks Art; Space and the City by MALCOLM MILES in Arts-Photography

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Public art - the making; management and mediation of art outside its conventional location in museums and galleries; and the livable city - a concept involving user-centred strategies for urban planning and design; are both socially produced but have emerged from different fields and tend to be discussed in isolation.This book applies a range of critical perspectives which have emerged from different disciplines - art criticism; urban design; urban sociology; geography and critical theory - to examine the practice of art for urban public spaces; seeing public art from positions outside those of the art world to ask how it might contribute to possible urban futures. Exploring the diversity of urban politics; the functions of public space and its relation to the structures of power; the roles of professionals and users in the construction of the city; the gendering of space and the ways in which space and citizen are represented; the book explains how these issues are as relevant to architecture; urban design and urban planning as they are to public art. Drawing on a wealth of images from across the UK and Europe and the USA; in particular; the author questions the effectiveness of public art in achieving more convivial urban environments; whilst retaining the idea that imagining possible futures is as much part of a democratic society as using public space.