GEOG 3701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Human Geography, Public Space, Henri Lefebvre
2 Dec 2016
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Space to which all citizens have a right of access (dictionary of human geography) . In terms of relationship to private space (property which is privately owned and governed by right of property: site of freedom, political rep, crucial for democratic participation. Don mitchell, offers some thoughts on public space. Ideal and real place: public space is an ideal something to be struggled towards not a real place, public spaces are essential spaces from political organizations, varied social life, and the formation of collective identities. They are real urban spaces that must be produced, reproduced, protected and transformed: points one and two are not contradictory. Publicness is a quality that urban spaces may have depends on whether their (cid:862)entran(cid:272)e (cid:272)riteria(cid:863) (cid:272)an (cid:271)e (cid:272)hallenged: a space is public as long as the right to enforce those criteria is always in question (springer)
