Javier Otero Peña presents, Residents’ feelings towards park renovations in low-income gentrifying neighborhoods: Latest findings of an ethnographic study in NYC
The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Javier Otero Peña presenting, Residents’ feelings towards park renovations in low-income gentrifying neighborhoods: Latest findings of an ethnographic study in NYC Everyone deserves access to parks of quality. In an effort to make cities more just, local authorities in many cities around the world are investing in public spaces in neglected, low-income and […]
Vikas Mehta, PhD presents, Unparalleled Prospect: the crises of public health and social injustice and the expansion of public space
The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Vikas Mehta, PhD presenting, Unparalleled Prospect: the crises of public health and social injustice and the expansion of public space. COVID-19 has forced an adaptation of urban space. This public health crises with all the disparities and inequities, has also brought a remarkable change — limited access to formal spaces has driven people […]
EDRA 52 @ VIRTUAL DETROIT is May 19-23
PSRG Members and Environmental Psychology Students present at several sessions during EDRA 52: Just Environments: Transdisciplinary Border Crossings @ Detroit (virtual). Friday, May 21, 2021, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM EDT Setha Low, PhD, The Anthropology of Space and Place (10360) presentation will be held during the session Public Space in the New Urban Agenda: Research into Practice for Cities for All. […]
Margarita Triguero-Mas presents Beyond healthy greenspaces: Gentrification and health equity considerations
The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Dr. Margarita Triguero-Mas presenting, Beyond healthy greenspaces: Gentrification and health equity considerations. Cities are restoring or creating new greenspaces to address diverse socio-environmental and health challenges. However, greenspace interventions may be affected by processes such as gentrification. Applying the therapeutic landscapes concept, we present the impacts of gentrification on the associations between greenspaces and […]
Valentina Gulin Zrnic & Saša Poljak Istenič present: Urban planning and interventions into green spaces: Zagreb and Ljubljana’s imaginings of the future
The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Valentina Gulin Zrnic & Saša Poljak Istenič presenting, Urban planning and interventions into green spaces: Zagreb and Ljubljana’s imaginings of the future The project “Urban Futures: Imagining and Activating Possibilities in Unsettled Times”, which this presentation derives from, is dedicated to researching future-making in selected Slovenian and Croatian cities. Future-making refers to an […]
Troy Simpson presents: Public space in the smart city: Navigating the ambiguities of emerging digital infrastructure
The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Troy Simpson presenting, Public space in the smart city: Navigating the ambiguities of emerging digital infrastructure. As public spaces become increasingly “smart,” the sometimes connected and sometimes disjointed layers of simultaneous data collection conducted via an ever-growing array of public and private sensors and systems is positioned to drastically reconfigure user experiences. What […]
Dr. Matilde Córdoba Azcárate presents: Tourism extraction and moral entrapments: Re-spatializing public beaches, revolutionary pasts, and indigenous labor in Yucatán, México
The Public Space Research Group is hosting this year’s last networking event on December 10 at 12pEST with guest speaker Dr. Matilde Córdoba Azcárate presenting her research, Tourism Extraction and Moral Entrapments: Re-spatializing Public Beaches, Revolutionary Pasts and Indigenous Labor in Yucatán, México. Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled futures of […]
Ana Terra presents: Intersectional climate justice: From theory to practice
The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Ana Terra presenting, Intersectional Climate Justice – From Theory to Practice. In this talk, Ana proposes an intersectional pivot in climate adaptation research and practice to analyze the interconnected forms of social-environmental injustices that drive vulnerabilities in cities. She presents a new conceptual framework for ‘intersectional climate justice’ and illustrates it with examples […]
Alesia Montgomery presents: Race and public space: The contradictions of placemaking in Detroit and Oakland
The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes, Alesia Montgomery presenting, Race and Public Space: The Contradictions of Placemaking in Detroit and Oakland Scholars who study race and public space in US cities tend to either (1) critique the displacement of Black cultures by privatized parks and hipster shops in gentrifying enclaves or (2) celebrate street cultures (community gardens, hip-hop) in […]
Centre for the Future of Places presents, WHY DOES PUBLIC SPACE MATTER? A Review of the Findings of a Four-Year Development Project on a New Database for Public Space Research
The PUBLIC SPACE RESEARCH GROUP welcomes the Centre for the Future of Places, at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and allied institutions in presenting, Why Does Public Space Matter?: A Review of the Findings of a Four-Year Development Project on a New Database for Public Space Research. This is an information session ahead of the official launch […]
