SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Downtown Eastside, Transportation Planning, Sam Sullivan
7 Dec 2017
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Civil rights meet civil engineering - urban public space and traffic logic by nicholas blomley notes (ap. Solicitation for the purposes of prostitution in public areas may be entirely criminalized. Protestors may be required to obtain a permit from the authorities, and agree to abide by certain rules. As has been noted,1 the authorities frequently engage in spatial tactics when they regulate such activities, confining protests, for example, to designated spaces: the regulation of public space has spawned a large literature. Some observers advocate tight restrictions on use and activity, arguing that certain behaviours compromise the essential function of public space as a shared resource. Yet in all cases, it is the encounters between people that are central. It is easy to find ethical humanism at work within municipal. Both: regard the purpose of public space as broadly political. treat public space as a space full of people.
