Common Ground?: Readings and Reflections on Public Space

Abstract

Locating Public Space PART I - Public Space as Civil Order Introduction The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces - William H. Whyte The Character of Third Places - Ray Oldenburg The Moral Order of Strangers - M. P. Baumgartner Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom - Elijah Anderson PART II - Public Space as Power and Resistance Introduction The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy - Don Mitchell Fortress Los Angeles - Mike Davis Whose Culture? Whose City? - Sharon Zukin Dispersing the Crowd: Bonus Plazas and the Creation of Public Space - Gregory Smithsimon Defying Disappearance: Cosmopolitan Public Spaces in Hong Kong - Lisa Law PART III - Public Space as Art, Theatre, and Performance Introduction Art and the Transit Experience / Creating a Sense of Purpose: Public Art and Boston's Orange Line - Cynthia Abrahamson, Myrna Margulies Breitbart, & Pamela Worden The Harsh Reality: Billboard Subversion and Graffiti - Timothy W. Drescher The Paradox of Public Art: Democratic Space, the Avant-Garde, and Richard Serra's 'Tilted Arc' - Caroline Levine Those Gorgeous Incongruities': Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth Century New York - Mona Domosh Soundscape and Society: Chinese Theatre and Cultural Authenticity in Singapore - Tong Soon Lee Relocating Public Space Toolkits for Interrogating Public Space

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