TY - BOOK AU - Irazábal,Clara TI - Ordinary places, extraordinary events : citizenship, democracy and public space in Latin America T2 - Planning, history and environment series SN - 9780415354523 AV - HT127.5 .O73 2008 U1 - 307.76098 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Public spaces KW - Political aspects KW - Latin America KW - Case studies KW - Social aspects KW - Cities and towns KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue : ordinary places, extraordinary events in Latin America / Clara Irazábal -- Citizenship, democracy, and public space in Latin America / Clara Irazábal -- Cities, democracies and powers -- Political appropriation of public space : extraordinary events in the Zócalo of Mexico City / Sergio Tamayo and Xóchitl Cruz-Guzmán -- Reinventing the void : São Paulo's Museum of Art and public life along Avenida Paulista / Zeuler R. Lima and Vera M. Pallamin -- A memorable public space : the plaza of the Central Station in Santiago de Chile / Rodrigo Vidal Rojas and Hans Fox Timmling -- Lima's historic centre : old places shaping new social arrangements / Miriam Chion and Wiley Ludeña Urquizo -- The Plaza de Boløvar of Bogotá : uniqueness of place, multiplicity of events / Alberto Saldarriaga Roa -- Place, citizenship and nationhood -- Space, revolution and resistance : ordinary places and extraordinary events in Caracas / Clara Irazábal and John Foley -- The struggle for urban territories : human rights activists in Buenos Aires / Susana Kaiser -- Iconic voids and social identity in a polycentric city : Havana from the nineteenth to the twentieth century / Roberto Segre -- Unresolved public expressions of anti-Trujilloism in Santo Domingo / Robert Alexander González -- Index ER -