The concept of public space and its democratic manifestations
By: GOODSELL, Charles T.
Material type: ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, December 2003Subject(s): Public Space; Public Sphere; Civic Space; Urban Space; Public ArchitectureThe American Review of Public Administration 33, 4, p. 361-383Abstract: The term public space has multiple meanings despending on the scholarly discipline. One aim of this article is to develop a unified concept of public space that draws on varied pertinent literatures, while at the same expanding the idea´s overage to incorporate the impacts of television and information tchonolgy. A second objective is to utilize the concept to explore empirically the practical possibilities for making public space more democratic, using for this purpose several photographs of actual public spacesThe term public space has multiple meanings despending on the scholarly discipline. One aim of this article is to develop a unified concept of public space that draws on varied pertinent literatures, while at the same expanding the idea´s overage to incorporate the impacts of television and information tchonolgy. A second objective is to utilize the concept to explore empirically the practical possibilities for making public space more democratic, using for this purpose several photographs of actual public spaces
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