Public space reader / edited by Miodrag Mitrašinović and Vikas Mehta.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. Public space : state of the question -- The public realm : the common / Hannah Arendt -- Blurring the boundaries : public space and private life / Margaret Crawford -- Rethinking the public sphere : a contribution to the critique of actually existing democracy / Nancy Fraser -- Masters of chancery : the gift of public space / Mark Kingwell -- The imperative of public space / Neil Smith and Setha Low -- Section 2. Diversity and inclusion in public space -- From gender mainstreaming to intersectionality : advances in achieving inclusive and safe cities / Anita Lacey, Rebecca Miller, Dory Reeves and Yardena Tanke -- Feminist approaches to urban design / Kristen Day -- Constructing differences in public spaces : race, class and gender as interlocking systems / Susan Ruddick -- Just walk on by : a Black man ponders his power to alter public space / Brent Staples -- Spaces of everyday diversity : the patchwork ecosystem of local shopping streets / Sharon Zukin, Philip Kasinitz and Ziangming Chen -- Section 3. From the just city to the right to public space -- Brave new neighborhoods : the privatization of public space / Margaret Kohn -- Propositions for more just urban public spaces / Setha Low and Kurt Iveson -- Parks and people : an environmental justice inquiry in Baltimore, Maryland / Christopher G. Boone, Geoffrey L. Buckley, j. Morgan Grove and Chona Sister -- Public space versus tableau : the right-to-the-city paradox in neoliberal Bogotá, Colombia / Rachel Berney -- 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 -- City unsilenced : spatial grounds of radical democratization / Sabine Knierbein and Jeffrey Hou -- Taken square : on the hybrid infrastructures of the #15M Movement / José Luis de Vicente -- Occupying public space, 2011 : from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park / Karn A. Franck and Te-Sheng Huang -- Choosing a place / Tali Hatuka -- Claiming the public space : the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo / Suzanna Torre -- Hacking public space / Marcella del Signore and Gernot Riether -- Section 5. Governance and management of public space -- a tale of two public spaces : line 7 and the future of public space in New York City / Miodrag Mitrašinović -- Union Square and the paradox of public space / Sharon Zukin -- Using and misusing zoning law to design cities / Jerold Kayden -- Building paranoia / Steven Flusty -- Freehouse : radicalizing the local / Jeanne van Heeswijk -- Public space : the management dimension / Matthew Carmona, Claudio de Magalhãs and Leo Hammond -- Section 6. Public art and public culture in/of public space -- The question of "public space" / Rosalyn Deutsche -- Art or lunch? redesigning a public for Federal Plaza / Kristine F. Miller -- The Soweto Project / Marjetica Potrč -- Return to Parhesia : recovering the capacity to speak / Krzysztof Wodiczko -- Agonistic politics and artistic practices : agonistic public spaces / Chantal Mouffe -- Section 7. Public space infrastructures -- Spatial practices : walking in the city / Michel de Certeau -- The social, economic and political life of sidewalks / Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht -- The public realm : a public responsibility / The Urban Task Force -- Public space, infrastructure, landscape : an interdisciplinary matrix for urban spatial continuity / Ana Brandão and Pedro Brandão -- Elastic landscape : seeding ecology in public space and urban infrastructure / Susannah C. Drake -- Section 8. Experiential dimensions and evaluation of public space -- The impossible project of public space / Manuel de Solà-Morales i Rubió -- Inhabiting cities, domesticating public space : observing change in the public life of contemporary London / Regan Koch and Alan Latham -- The social life of wireless urban spaces : internet use, social networks, and the public realm / Keith N. Hampton, Oren Livio and Lauren Sessions Goulet -- Assessing the publicness of public space : the star model of publicness / Georgiana Varna and Steve Tiesdell -- Evaluating public space / Vikas Mehta -- Section 9. Global and comparative perspectives on public space -- Public space and the new urban agenda / Cecilia Andersson -- Citizenship, democracy and public space in Latin America / Clara Irazábal -- Whose public space? international case studies in urban design and development / Ali Madanipour -- Degrees of care / Shiqiao Li -- The culture of the Indian street / Tim Edensor.

"Recent global appropriations of public spaces through urban activism, public uprising, and political protest have brought back democratic values, beliefs, and practices that have been historically associated with cities. Given the aggressive commodification of public resources, public space is critically important due to its capacity to enable forms of public discourse and social practice which are fundamental for the well-being of democratic societies. Public Space Reader brings together public space scholarship by a cross-disciplinary group of academics and specialists whose essays consider fundamental questions: What is public space and how does it manifest larger cultural, social, and political processes? How are public spaces designed, socially and materially produced, and managed? How does this impact the nature and character of public experience? What roles does it play in the struggles for the just city, and the Right to The City? What critical participatory approaches can be employed to create inclusive public spaces that respond to the diverse needs, desires, and aspirations of individuals and communities alike? What are the critical global and comparative perspectives on public space that can enable further scholarly and professional work? And, what are the futures of public space in the face of global pandemics, such as COVID-19? The readers of this volume will be rewarded with an impressive array of perspectives that are bound to expand critical perspectives on public space"-- Provided by publisher.