Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Foreword

MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

Introduction

LANCE JAY BROWN and RON SHIFFMAN

1. Occupy!

Occupying Public Space, 2011: From Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park
KAREN A. FRANCK and TE-SHENG HUANG

Occupy Wall Street, Social Movements, and Contested Space
BENJAMIN SHEPARD

“A Stiff Clarifying Test Is in Order”: Occupy and Negotiating Rights in Public Space
GREGORY SMITHSIMON

Being There
WENDY E. BRAWER and BRENNAN S. CAVANAUGH

Politics Out of Place: Occupy Wall Street and the Rhetoric of “Filth”
JULIAN BRASH

To Occupy
SASKIA SASSEN

The Office of the People
GAN GOLAN

Some Unresolved Constitutional Questions
ARTHUR EISENBERG

2. Emplacing Equity and Social Justice

Making Public, Beyond Public Space
JEFFREY HOU

Freedom Corner: Reflections on a Public Space for Dissent in a Fractured City
MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE with TERRI BALTIMORE

Occupying Dissent: A Conversation with Maya Wiley
RON SHIFFMAN

Whose Voice: The Limited Participation of Color in the Occupy Movement
ROLAND V. ANGLIN

Emplacing Democratic Design
MICHAEL RIOS

3. Reimaging Public Space

The Sidewalks of New York
MICHAEL SORKIN

Radical Imagination
CARON ATLAS

Room to Grow Something
PAULA Z. SEGAL

Openhearted Cities
LYNNE ELIZABETH

Life and Death in Public Places
NIKKI STERN

4. Public Space Over Time

The Grass Is Always Greener: A Brief History of Public Space and Protest in New York City and London
LISA KELLER

The Romance of Public Space
MARSHALL BERMAN

Places that Matter: Zuccotti Park Before / After / Now
ALEXANDER COOPER

Public Space and Its Disconnects
RICK BELL

Public Space Then and in the Future
LANCE JAY BROWN

Pushing Back Boundaries: How Social Movements Are Redefining the Public Space
SADRA SHAHAB and SHIRIN BARGHI

5. Responsive Change

  5.1 Public Sector Agents of Change

Occupy and the Provision of Public Space: The Cityʼs Responsibilities
PETER MARCUSE

Is “Public Space” Possible?
DAVID BURNEY

Making—and Governing—Places for Democracy
BRAD LANDER and MICHAEL FREEDMAN-SCHNAPP

Making Cities Work
JANETTE SADIK-KHAN

  5.2 Designers and Developers as Agents of Change

Blurring the Boundaries to Keep Public Space Public
PAUL BROCHES

When Domestic Space Meets Civic Space: A Case for Design Populism
MICHAEL PYATOK

Shaping Public Space, Shaping Our City
SUSAN CHIN

Public Space: Opening Streets and Sidewalks
JONATHAN MARVEL

Designed to Be Occupied
SIGNE NIELSEN

POPS, Out of the Shadows: A Designer’s Perspective
THOMAS BALSLEY

Developing the Public Realm: A Conversation with Jonathan Rose
RON SHIFFMAN

Programming Public Space: A Conversation with Carlton Brown
RON SHIFFMAN with ANASTASSIA FISYAK

A Call for Actions

RON SHIFFMAN and JEFFREY HOU

Contributors

Index

 

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