People’s Spaces: Coping, Familiarizing, Creating

People’s Spaces: Coping, Familiarizing, Creating

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Reviewed by Asha L Abeyasekera

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21 Feb 2018, 12:00 am

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People’s Spaces: Coping, Familiarizing, Creating

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’?

 

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