Goodsell, Charles T.

The concept of public space and its democratic manifestations - 2003 - p.361-83. - Dec

The term public space has multiple meanings depending on the scholarly discipline. One aim of this articles is to develop a unified concept of public space that draws on varied pertinent literatures, while at the same time expanding the idea's coverage to incorporate the impacts of television and information technology. 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. - Reproduced.


Public spaces