The use, access to, and control of public space is, and always has been, political. In recent
years, struggles over public MMMM have become dl battleground for issues related to …

Peter Marcuse the occupAtion oF key public spaces by Occupy Wall Street as a means of
calling attention to more basic problems raises questions about the role of public spaces that …

In this thesis I will consider how public space serves as both political and spiritual
infrastructure. I take the position that public space is critical for US citizens to be able to …

The frequent return of American political researchers to environments such as Boston's
Copley Plaza and Convention Center remind us of how different the twenty-first century city …

Public space has always been a crucial feature of the urban landscape. It is the necessary
venue in which people from various class, ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds “rub …

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Berkeley Planning journal. The end of a decade
marks a good time to reflect on its past and future significance for readers, authors, editors …

This is a pivotal moment for examining the politics of public space. The broad decay of
twentieth-century American liberalism provides the crucial context for the restructuring of …

The essays in this volume offer a timely engagement with, and challenge to, accepted
thinking about public spaces in cities. Within contemporary urban studies, how public …

Background: The optimists among the public space scholarship argue that instead of a well-
organized, carefully concerted and highly controlled urban social life, what unfolds in …

This chapter began when my mother sent me a clipping from the Los Angeles Times about
Broad Beach in Malibu,“where non-resident sunbathers, picnickers and others are booted …