Stefano Rozzoni researches Transcultural Studies in Humanities at the University of Bergamo, Italy, and Literary and Cultural Studies at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany.Beitske Boonstra is researcher, teacher, and scientific coordinator at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Public Administration and Sociology.Teresa Cutler-Broyles has an MA in Cultural Theory and an MA certification in Architectural Historical Preservation. She teaches Film and Cultural Theory at the University of New Mexico, USA, and Food Studies in Perugia, Italy.

• Chapter 1. How Public Participation Can Lead to the Placemaking of Space and Resilience of Place; Nakul Nitin Gote and Wolfgang Wende Chapter 2. Al-Tahrir Square, Cairo During 2011. From Undefined Space to Interactive Place; Khaled I. Nabil Chapter 3. Imprisonment of Public Space; Esra Akbalık Chapter 4. Kuwait National Assembly Building: The Holy Assembly; Anas Alomaim and Dana Alhasan Chapter 5. Place Before Form, People Before Profit: Reclaiming Venues of Art and Culture in the Midst of Tourism-Centred Reimaging of Cities; Sami Chohan Chapter 6. Power, Cosmopolitanism, and Socio-Spatial Division in the Commercial Arena in Victorian and Edwardian London; Elisabete Mendes SilvaChapter 7. “A Place Perfectly Accordant with Man’s Nature”: Violent Spaces in the Fiction of Thomas Hardy; Olivia Krauze Chapter 8. Rising Cittagna(s): A Dialogue between Literature and Urbanism in Contemporary (Post-)Pastoral Cityscapes; Stefano Rozzoni Chapter 9. Re-Wilding my Garden and Community Activities; Angela Specht