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

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