LECTURE - Public Spaces & Public Lives

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Readings

Richard Sennet, excerpt from The Fall of Public Man

Henri Lefebvre, "The Right to the City"

Rosalyn Deutsche, "Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City " from Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics

William Julius Wilson, excerpt from The Truly Disadvantaged

Also:

Henri Lefebvre on the Situationist International

On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture by Setha Low (library)

The right to the city : social justice and the fight for public space by Don Mitchell (library)

Variations on a theme park : the new American city and the end of public space edited by Michael Sorkin (library)

Brave new neighborhoods : the privatization of public space by Margaret Kohn (library)

And I know you guys get plenty of my voice as it is, but when we didn't have class in February, I was in Boston giving a talk about wireless art, play and public space. In it I talked quite a bit about Sennet and the difference between public space and common space, and if you're interested you can listen to the lecture.