Book review: People’s Spaces: Coping, Familiarizing, Creating

21st Feb 2018

Book review: People’s Spaces: Coping, Familiarizing, Creating

A new book review by Asha L Abeyasekera is now available online

 

At the heart of Professor of Urban Planning Nihal Perera’s book People’s Spaces: Coping, Familiarizing, Creating are the following questions: how do ‘ordinary people produce living spaces for and through their everyday activities and cultural practices’? How do they negotiate and transform ‘abstract space’ – established through the institutional processes of housing, planning and development – into meaningful ‘people’s spaces’?

 

You can access and read the full review here

 

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