TY  - GEN
N2  - ?Cities by and for the people? indicates the active role of urban citizens
in constructing spaces in the cities. The collection of narratives in this
book brings together research from ten cities in Asia to contribute to
re-theorizing the city from the perspective of ordinary people who face
moments of crisis, contestation, and cooperation to create alternative
spaces from those produced under prevailing urban processes. The
chapters in this book accent the intertwining of ?human flourishing? with
the exercise of human agency through daily practices in the production
of urban space, placing people in the centre as agents of city-making
with discontents about their current conditions and desires for a better
life. The cases brought together in this volume each tell us what people
strive for when they mobilize with others to produce urban spaces. One
of the important theoretical lessons is that the appropriation of space
for de-commodified, alternative visions of urban life is not permanent.
Sharing space is an opportunity to build collective actions and initiate
discussions on the collaborative management of the place. In practice,
these processes may be far from ideal and may be subjected to local
forms of power imbalances. Although they are spaces of continuous
struggles and are embedded with specific limitations that include local
hierarchies and contradictions, these convivial spaces are places that
actively demonstrate the possible alternative ways to produce urban
spaces.
ID  - discovery10117141
UR  - https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462985223/cities-in-asia-by-and-for-the-people
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
CY  - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A1  - Cabannes, Y
A1  - Douglass, M
A1  - Padawangi, R
KW  - human flourishing
KW  -  human agency
KW  -  alternative spaces
KW  - 
place-making
TI  - Cities by and for the People
Y1  - 2018///
AV  - public
SP  - 13
EP  - 40
N1  - This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
ER  -