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来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.39,Issue6,P.944-962

语言

英文

关键字

Public space; urban redevelopment; empty space; heritage protection; food markets; France; FRANCE

作者单位

[Tchoukaleyska, Roza] Mem Univ Newfoundland, Environm Studies, Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook, NF, Canada. Tchoukaleyska, R (reprint author), Mem Univ Newfoundland, Environm Studies, Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook, NF, Canada. E-Mail: rtchoukaleys@mun.ca

摘要

This article examines the dislocations produced when competing understandings of public space come into contact. Focusing on Montpellier, France, where an urban renewal program has seen portions of the city-centre renovated, the article considers the breaking apart of a North African commercial cluster under the guide of French heritage protection. Arguing that such action is tiedto municipal urban politics and wider trajectories that place diverse identities in a separate category, I trace the process through which a plaza encompassed in the urban renewal program has been labelled as "empty" and "dead" space. Suggesting that the relocation of a well-used outdoor food market is an instance of public space being deliberately emptied of its social and civic function, I argue that such sites are better defined as municipal spaces, entities that are firmly in the realm of the state, rather than ones within the purview of diverse publics.