Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 268
Trim: 9⅜ x 6
978-0-8476-8809-8 • Hardback • December 1997 • $62.00 • (£48.00)
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Andrew Light is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Montana. Jonathan M. Smith is associate professor of Geography at Texas A&M University.
Chapter 1 List of Illustrations
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction: Geography, Philosophy, and Public Philosophy, and Public Space
Part 4 Symposium on Henri LeFebvre's the Production of Space
Chapter 5 Henri Lefebvre on Abstract Space
Chapter 6 Antinomies of Space and Nature in Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space
Chapter 7 The Production of Space or The Heterogeneity of Place: A Commentary on Edward Dimendberg and Neil Smith
Part 8 Beyond The Public/Private Dichotomy
Chapter 9 Formal Politics, Meta-Space, and the Construction of Civil Life
Chapter 10 The Stranger on the Green
Chapter 11 Public and Private, Power and Space
Chapter 12 The "Disappearance of Public Space": An Ecological Marxist and Lefebvrian Approach
Part 13 Regional Territories
Chapter 14 Contested Space: The Rural Idyll and Competing Notions of the Good Society in the U.K.
Chapter 15 The Rights of Rights of Way
Chapter 16 The Mediation of the Public Sphere: Ideological Origins, Practical Possibilities
Chapter 17 Representation, Identity, and the Communicative Shaping of Place
Chapter 18 Maps and Entitlement to Territory
Chapter 19 Index
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