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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Part one: Introduction
7. Chapter 1: Notes from the field. A personal account 3
8. Chapter 2: Public Space and Culture. The case of Latin American plaza 31
9. Part two: Histories
10. Chapter 3: The history of plaza in San José, Costa Rica. The political symbolism of public space 47
11. Chapter 4: The European history of the plaza. Power relations and Architectural Interpretation 84
12. Chapter 5: The indigenous history of the plaza. The contested terrain of architectural representations 101
13. Part three: Ethnographies
14. Chapter 6: Spatializing culture. The social production and social construction of public space 127
15. Chapter 7: Constructing difference. The social and spatial boundaries of everyday life 154
16. Chapter 8: Public space and protest. The plaza as art and commodity 180
17. Part four: Conversations
18. Chapter 9: The park and the plaza in Costa Rican literature. Imagine places 207
19. Chapter 10: Conversations on the plaza. Remembered places 219
20. Chapter 11: Public space, politics and democracy 238
21. Appendix: Recent Costa Rican Presidents and their terms 248
22. Bibliography 249
23. Index 267