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Setha Low is Professor of anthropology and environmental psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Theorizing theCity (1999), On the Plaza (2000), Place Attachment (1992), Housing, Culture and Society (1989), CulturalSpaces (2001) and Behind the Gates (Routledge, 2003).
Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Director of CUNY's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He is the author of four major books; Uneven Development (1983 and 1991), The NewUrban Frontier (Routledge, 1996), American Empire:Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (2003), which received The Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography in 2003 and the recently published Endgameof Globalization(Routledge, 2004).
<p>"This brisk and trenchant defense of the importance of a genuinely public urban realm could not be more timely."<br /> -- Michael Sorkin, author of Variations on a Theme Park: the New American City and the End of Public Space<br />"What makes this edited collection especially valuable, indeed unusual, is its reliance on a wide range of intellectual approaches to public space, from the theoretical to the empirical. Public space today is simply too complicated for anything less, and this volume thankfully satisfies that demand."<br /> -- Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and author of Privately Owned Public Space</p>
<p>"What makes this edited collection especially valuable, indeed unusual, is its reliance on a wide range of intellectual approaches to public space, from the theoretical to the empirical. Public space today is simply too complicated for anything less, and this volume thankfully satisfies that demand." - Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and author of <em>Privately Owned Public Space</em></p>
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Setha Low is Professor of anthropology and environmental psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Theorizing theCity (1999), On the Plaza (2000), Place Attachment (1992), Housing, Culture and Society (1989), CulturalSpaces (2001) and Behind the Gates (Routledge, 2003).
Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Director of CUNY's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He is the author of four major books; Uneven Development (1983 and 1991), The NewUrban Frontier (Routledge, 1996), American Empire:Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (2003), which received The Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography in 2003 and the recently published Endgameof Globalization(Routledge, 2004).