Urban Public Spaces

1. A Multidimensional Frame for Analyzing Urban Public Spaces Policies and Politics
Lucia Capanema Alvares, Jorge Luiz Barbosa

Part I. About People

2. The Power of the Body in Public Space: The Urban as a Deprivation of the Right to the City
Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos

3. Reinventing Public Spaces: Politics of Oneself and Politics with Many Others
Jorge Luiz Barbosa, Ilaina Damasceno Pereira

4. A Cornered Democracy: The Echoes of the 2013 Demonstrations in Rio de Janeiro and the Architecture of a Crisis
Lia Beatriz Teixeira Torraca

5. Leisure and Work in Contemporary Urban-Metropolitan Space: Perspectives, Tendencies, and Utopias
Ângelo Serpa

Part II. About Spaces. And People

6. Open Public Spaces and the Vita Activa

Eugênio Fernandes Queiroga

7. Open Space Systems in Rio de Janeiro: The Public and Private Spheres Reflected in the Urban Landscape
Vera Regina Tângari

8. The “Reinvention” of the City Through the Favelas
Cristóvão Fernandes Duarte

9. In the Guise of a (Global) Comprehension: A Multidimensional Analysis of Urban Public Spaces Through Selected Authors
Lucia Capanema Alvares

Keywords: Geography, Cultural Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Human Geography, Social Policy