I'm a grad student in Columbia's Department of Sociology . Click here . Writing I'm writing my dissertation on public space in New York City. The irreplaceable political importance of public space is in both its use by organized political movements, and in the everyday interactions with other people. The Technologies of Public Space and Alternatives to a Privatized New York Out with the old segregation, in with the new.
Sophisticated design can make parks and plazas that look open, but still exclude people.
Katrin Bindner and I compared changes in New York and Berlin. Based on my work with graffiti writers across the country from 1994 to the present. If I ever load in the photos, you'll even forgive the absurd, academic approach to the whole thing. A quick look at feminist urbanism. Histories of Jewish and Puerto Rican Neighborhoods Tell a Different Story Immigrants' memoirs suggest that life in public space has changed much less than is often assumed.