Common Ground? Book

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