{"pk":3823,"title":"Public Space Praxis: Cultural Capacity and Political Efficacy in Latina/o Placemaking","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Public space has increasingly become a critical issue in American urbanism. This article examines how the act of Latina/o identity formation in public spaces of American metropolises contain the possibility of new democratic formations. The evidence of Latino/a heritage and culture in spatial interventions, appropriations and practices are a type of place-making activity. This identity-based spatial practice harnesses public participation and carves out spaces for democratic interventions in the city. By focusing on the value of culture as a political capacity, Rios exposes a set of case studies centered around three types of spaces– \nadaptive, assertive, \nand \nnegotiative \n– along a continuum to discuss different ways Latina/ os make group claims in the city and whereupon cultural identity becomes a usable resource for community development practice and local urban policy.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Latino"},{"word":"Latina"},{"word":"placemaking"},{"word":"sociology"},{"word":"Culture"},{"word":"Urban planning"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68w6n7n1","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rios","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Davis","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2011-11-16T01:47:07Z","date_accepted":"2011-11-16T01:47:07Z","date_published":"2011-11-15T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucb_crp_bpj/article/3823/galley/2480/download/"}]}