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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