Public spaces and subversion

Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 85-99

  Cunningham, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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1. One illustration of this complaint is in a paper by John Paul Jones III, "The Street Politics of Jackie Smith," in Companion to the City, ed. Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (London: Blackwell, 2003), 448-59;
2. Don Mitchell, "The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public and Democracy," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85, no. 1 (March 1995): 108-33.
3. This is a central theme in Robert Beauregard and Anna Bounds's paper, "Urban Citizenship," in Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City, ed. Engin Isin (London: Routledge, 2000), 248 and passim. Another example is John R. Parkinson, "Does Democracy Require Physical Public Space?" in Does Truth Matter? Politics and Public Sphere in Democracy, ed. Raf Geenens and Ronald Tinnevelt (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2008).
4. Margaret Kohn describes this concern (along with several others) in Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space (New York: Routledge, 2004), 7-9.
5. Phantom Power; the song is "Bobcaygeon." 5 Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture (Boston:Beacon Press, 1970).
6. Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy (Chicago: Charles Kerr, 1907), 29. The passage as quoted is taken from the superior translation used in Leszek Kolakowski's Main Current of Marxism, vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), 147, in a chapter on Lafargue. Marx's comment about work being life's prime want is in his Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) in Karl Marx & Frederick Engels: Selected Works in One Volume (New York: International Publishers, 1968), 324.
7. The essential theory is developed by Macpherson by tracing the early political- philosophical expressions of this culture in thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to John Locke in The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962).