Urban Public Spaces: From Planned Policies to Everyday Politics (Illustrated with Brazilian Case Stu

A multi-dimensional frame for analyzing Urban Public Spaces policies and politics.- The power of the body in public space: Urban as a deprivation of the right to the city.- Reinventing public spaces: Politics of oneself and politics with many others.- A Cornered Democracy: the echoes of the 2013 demonstrations in Rio de Janeiro and the architecture of a crisis.- Leisure and work in contemporary urban-metropolitan space: Perspectives, tendencies and utopias.- Open Public Spaces and the vita activa.- Open Space Systems in Rio de Janeiro: the public and private spheres reflected in the urban landscape.- The "re-invention" of the city through the favelas.- In the guise of a (global) comprehension: a multidimensional analysis of Urban Public Spaces through selected authors.