Staging the past - postmodern public space in Brussels and Istanbul. KU Leuven
This dissertation proposes to apply Henri Lefebvres approach of the production of space to the analysis of public space. A thus historically informed socio-economic analysis of public space does prevent research from falling into the trap of orientalism, rehearsing only the age-old argument that public space in the so-called Orient did not exist due to a lack of democracy, the
lack of women moving in public space, the dominance of Islam ...