Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new kinds of retail space. Retail
space has cropped up just about everywhere in the urban landscape: in libraries …

Mainly employed as domestic workers and care providers since the 1980s, Filipino migrants
have been, and still are, largely invisible in Italian public space. Since 1991, once a year, on …

This article analysis the socio-political form of the migrant squats, and the socio-spatial
interactions they foster and generate. Drawing on empirical research, it focuses on the …

This paper underscores the centrality of individual technological devices, particularly mobile
phones, in structuring contemporary social interaction in public spaces. It illustrates the need …

The concept of visibility has been associated with the public sphere conception for a long
time. However, the public sphere has not been explicitly defined in terms of visibility. This …

Visibility is an important characteristic of public space. According to Brighenti, control and
recognition can be understood as two opposing outcomes of visibility. These two modes are …

Most of researchers from various disciplines assert conflicting definitions about public
spaces. In this context, when some researchers express the decline of public spaces, others …

Over recent decades, cities have been radically transformed by information and
communication technologies (ICTs) that modify people's daily lives by reorganising mobility …

While scholars agree on the reasons behind the current proliferation of urban, small-scale,
pre-organised events, the implication of these events for public life is more controversial …

How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies, objects, ideas and practices that
constitute the urban? This book explores the relation between space, law and control in the …