TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hocking,Bree T.
TI  - The great reimagining: public art, urban space and the symbolic landscapes of a 'new' Northern Ireland 
T2  - Material mediations
SN  - 1322950830
AV  - HT169.G72 N734 2015
U1  - 307.121609416 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn
KW  - City planning
KW  - Northern Ireland
KW  - Urban landscape architecture
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - Paysage urbain
KW  - Irlande du Nord
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Regional Planning
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction -- Landscapes of Change in the Transitional City; Chapter 1 -- A Place Apart? Sectarian Geographies, Share Space and the Material Production of a 'New' Northern Ireland; Chapter 2 -- From 'Gunland' to Globalization: The 'Space of Flows' Meets Place in a City 'on the Rise'; Chapter 3 -- Neutral Space is Shopping Space. Or is it? The Choreography of Consumption in Belfast City Centre; Chapter 4 -- Beautiful Barriers: Contesting the Symbolic Reimaging of Community along a Belfast Peace Line; Chapter 5 -- Transforming the Stone: Recasting Derry's Diamond War Memorial for the Demands of a Shared FutureChapter 6 -- Art on the Frontlines: Civilizing Derry's Ebrington Military Barracks for a 'City of Culture'; Conclusion -- The City as Civic Identikit? Twenty-first Century Public(s) on the Transnational Urban Stage Set; Appendix: Interview Profiles; Bibliography; Index
N2  - While sectarian violence has greatly diminished on the streets of Belfast and Derry, proxy battles over the right to define Northern Ireland's identity through its new symbolic landscapes continue. Offering a detailed ethnographic account of Northern Ireland's post-conflict visual transformation, this book examines the official effort to produce new civic images against a backdrop of ongoing political and social struggle. Interviews with politicians, policymakers, community leaders, cultural workers, and residents shed light on the deeply contested nature of seemingly harmonized urban landsca
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