Urban interstices: Paris, New York. In between control and mobility, four residual spaces of urban planning.

Title: Urban interstices: Paris, New York. In between control and mobility, four residual spaces of urban planning.
Identifier: AAI3103181
identifier: 3103181
Creator: Tonnelat, Stephane.
Contributor: Adviser: William Kornblum
Date: 2003
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Psychology, General | Urban and Regional Planning
Abstract: What is the place and role of urban interstices in the contemporary city? Two complementary approaches are used to analyze urban interstices, residual spaces of urban planning, in four case studies in Paris and New York City. The first approach, "major," is organized around the concept of disorder and traces the four sites in a process of deterioration, maintenance, control and renewal, characteristic of urban planning and design. It also outlines a frame of analysis for the second approach, "minor" and ethnographic, which considers the necessity of being "on the move" in the interstice as a "dominant involvement" (Goffman). In the shadow of this involvement were observed apparatuses of capture of the flow (Charenton and Times Square), transformation of the relation to the built environment (French National Library and Pier 84 on the Hudson), and construction of interstitial networks that span the city. Interstices are finally revealed as "transformative" spaces as much as spaces to transform.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

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