Olivia Engström begins: ‘Spatial Resilience Tactic of Urban Public Space Repurposing in the Shrinking City: The Sustaining Community of Estonian Border City of Narva’
Engström:
Sustainability discourse entered all dimensions of our lives
In Narva, I examine urban public space repurposing, dynamics of spatial meetings
Post-socialist transitions here brought big changes, lost jobs, shrinking cities
Urban public space repurposing can show strategies of resilience
I performed a multi-cited ethnography to explore the ways people make sense of the city