Common Ground? : Readings and Reflections on Public Space (Hardcover)

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