Public Space Reader

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section 1: Public Space: State of the Question
	1.1 The Public Realm: The Common • Hannah Arendt
	1.2 Blurring the Boundaries: Public Space and Private Life • Margaret Crawford
	1.3 Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy • Nancy Fraser
	1.4 Masters of Chancery: The Gift of Public Space • Mark Kingwell
	1.5 The Imperative of Public Space • Neil Smith and Setha Low
Section 2: Diversity and Inclusion in Public Space
	2.1 From Gender Mainstreaming to Intersectionality: Advances in Achieving Inclusive and Safe Cities • Anita Lacey, Rebecca Miller, Dory Reeves and Yardena Tankel
	2.2 Feminist Approaches to Urban Design • Kristen Day
	2.3 Constructing Differences in Public Spaces: Race, Class and Gender as Interlocking Systems • Susan Ruddick
	2.4 Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space • Brent Staples
	2.5 Spaces of Everyday Diversity: The Patchwork Ecosystem of Local Shopping Streets • Sharon Zukin, Philip Kasinitz and Xiangming Chen
Section 3: From the Just City to the Right to Public Space
	3.1 Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space • Margaret Kohn
	3.2 Propositions for More Just Urban Public Spaces • Setha Low and Kurt Iveson
	3.3 Parks and People: An Environmental Justice Inquiry in Baltimore, Maryland • Christopher G. Boone, Geoffrey L. Buckley, J. Morgan Grove and Chona Sister
	3.4 Public Space Versus Tableau: The Right-to-The-City Paradox in Neoliberal Bogotá, Colombia • Rachel Berney
	3.5 To Go Again to Hyde Park: Public Space, Rights and Social Justice • Don Mitchell
Section 4: Public Space as Site of Activism, Protest and Dissent
	4.1 City Unsilenced: Spatial Grounds of Radical Democratization • Sabine Knierbein and Jeffrey Hou
	4.2 Taken Square: On the Hybrid Infrastructures of the #15M Movement • José Luis de Vicente
	4.3 Occupying Public Space, 2011: From Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park • Karen A. Franck and Te-Sheng Huang
	4.4 Choosing a Place • Tali Hatuka
	4.5 Claiming the Public Space: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo • Suzanna Torre
	4.6 Hacking Urban Space • Marcella Del Signore and Gernot Riether
Section 5: Governance and Management of Public Space
	5.1 A Tale of Two Public Spaces: Line 7 and the Future of Public Space in New York City • Miodrag Mitrašinović
	5.2 Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space • Sharon Zukin
	5.3 Using and Misusing Zoning Law to Design Cities • Jerold Kayden
	5.4 Building Paranoia • Steven Flusty
	5.5 Freehouse: Radicalizing the Local • Jeanne Van Heeswijk
	5.6 Public Space: The Management Dimension • Matthew Carmona, Claudio de Magalhães and Leo Hammond
Section 6: Public Art and Public Culture in/of Public Space
	6.1 The Question of “Public Space” • Rosalyn Deutsche
	6.2 Art or Lunch? Redesigning a Public for Federal Plaza • Kristine F. Miller
	6.3 The Soweto Project • Marjetica Potrč
	6.4 Return to Parrhesia: Recovering the Capacity to Speak • Krzysztof Wodiczko
	6.5 Agonistic Politics and Artistic Practices: Agonistic Public Spaces • Chantal Mouffe
Section 7: Public Space Infrastructures
	7.1 Spatial Practices: Walking in the City • Michel de Certeau
	7.2 The Social, Economic and Political Life of Sidewalks • Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht
	7.3 The Public Realm: A Public Responsibility • The Urban Task Force
	7.4 Public Space, Infrastructure, Landscape: An Interdisciplinary Matrix for Urban Spatial Continuity • Ana Brandão and Pedro Brandão
	7.5 Elastic Landscape: Seeding Ecology in Public Space and Urban Infrastructure • Susannah C. Drake
Section 8: Experiential Dimensions and Evaluation of Public Space
	8.1 The Impossible Project of Public Space • Manuel de Solà-Morales i Rubió (1939–2012)
	8.2 Inhabiting Cities, Domesticating Public Space: Observing Change in the Public Life of Contemporary London • Regan Koch and Alan Latham
	8.3 The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces: Internet Use, Social Networks, and the Public Realm • Keith N. Hampton, Oren Livio and Lauren Sessions Goulet
	8.4 Assessing the Publicness of Public Space: The Star Model of Publicness • Georgiana Varna and Steve Tiesdell
	8.5 Evaluating Public Space • Vikas Mehta
Section 9: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Public Space
	9.1 Public Space and the New Urban Agenda • Cecilia Andersson
	9.2 Citizenship, Democracy and Public Space in Latin America • Clara Irazábal
	9.3 Whose Public Space? International Case Studies in Urban Design and Development • Ali Madanipour
	9.4 Degrees of Care • Shiqiao Li
	9.5 The Culture of the Indian Street • Tim Edensor
Further Reading
Index