Public space and diversity working group
Bibliography
Prepared by Éva Tessza Udvarhelyi
Graduate Center of The City University of New York
September 2012
Table of contents
1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 3
2. Public space and the public sphere ......................................................................................... 4
3. The politics of public space .................................................................................................... 6
3a. Theoretical underpinnings ................................................................................................ 6
3b. Contested urban policies .................................................................................................. 7
3c. Street people and street life .............................................................................................. 8
3d. Contested memories ......................................................................................................... 8
3e. Privatization, securitization and criminalization .............................................................. 9
3f. Post-colonial public space ............................................................................................... 10
4. Public space and mobility .................................................................................................... 11
5. Social relations in public space ............................................................................................ 12
6. Public space and diversity .................................................................................................... 14
6a. Cultural diversity ............................................................................................................ 14
6b. Religion .......................................................................................................................... 14
6c. Sexuality and gender ...................................................................................................... 14
6d. Race and ethnicity .......................................................................................................... 15
6e. Ability ............................................................................................................................. 15
7. Art and public space ............................................................................................................. 16
8. Design and planning of public space .................................................................................... 17
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1. Introduction
This bibliography summarizes the main works produced around the topic “public space and
diversity” organized according to a number of pre-determined themes. The bibliography is not
an exhaustive survey of all disciplines as it focuses mainly on books produced by
anthropologists, geographers, sociologist and psychologists. For example, literary and artistic
representations that offer a critique of public space as well as works by urban designers and
planners with a strictly technical focus are not included.
While the bibliography intends to cover a wide variety of venues from markets through
museums to the Internet, it can not possibly include all the works about the different kinds of
public spaces created and used by communities. Moreover, while the bibliography is global in
scope, it focuses only on English-language literature. As a result, many societies, languages,
cultures and world regions are missing from the accounts (one notable omission is Central and
Eastern Europe).
The bibliography includes both classic texts about public space and new groundbreaking
works. In general, it aims to highlight works that provide innovative and influential
contributions to the debates around public space. The listed works discuss public space at a
variety of scales from individual streets to national and global spaces. At the same time, a
more explicit problematization of scale regarding the definition of public space as well as a
greater sensitivity to cross-cultural interpretations of public space seem necessary by authors
in the field.
While many aspects of public space are covered here, some are clearly missing. This is due on
the one hand to the pre-determined nature of the themes included in the bibliography and on
the other to the lack of in-depth discussion by academics and professionals. Such themes
include the relationship between law and public space, the financial and economic aspects of
public space, the construction and production of white public space, the experience of public
space by different generations such as youth and the elderly, the complex relations of property,
the affective and embodied nature of public space, the history of public space in general and
specific public spaces in particular as well as non-urban public spaces.
Finally, works in this bibliography are embedded in a broader critical literature about the
social production and construction of space. While this theoretical and methodological
background is present in most of the listed works, it is not addressed explicitly. Besides, given
that the overall theme of the bibliography is diversity, it focuses mostly on critical and
progressive approaches to public space and does not include conservative or technocratic texts
that promote exclusionary measures or limited access to public spaces.
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2. Public space and the public sphere
1. Barrett, J. (2010). Museums and the public sphere. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
2. Dehaene, M. & Cauter, L. D. (2008). Heterotopia and the city: Public space
in a postcivil society. London & New York: Routledge.
3. Galanakis, M. & Snellman, M. (2008). Space unjust socio-spatial
discrimination in urban public space cases from Helsinki and Athens. Helsinki:
Helsinki University of Art and Design.
4. Habermas, J. (1989). The structural transformation of the public sphere: An
Inquiry into a category of bourgeois society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
5. Henaff, M. (Ed.) (2011). Public space and democracy. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
6. Holston, J. (2007). Insurgent citizenship: Disjunctions of democracy and
modernity in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
7. Hou, J. (Ed.) (2010). Insurgent public space: Guerrilla urbanism and the
remaking of contemporary cities. London & New York: Routledge.
8. Iveson, K. (2007). Publics and the city. Oxford: Blackwell.
9. Irazábal, C. (Ed.) (2008). Ordinary places/extraordinary events: Citizenship,
democracy and public space in Latin America. London & New York:
Routledge.
10. Kaarsholm, P. & Hofmeyr, I. (2009). Popular and the public: Cultural
debates and struggles over public space in modern India, Africa and Europe.
London: Seagull Books.
11. Keller, L. (2008). Triumph of order: Democracy and public space in New
York and London. New York: Columbia University Press.
12. Kingwell, M. & Turmel, P. (Eds.) (2009). Rites of way: The politics and
poetics of public space. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
13. Madanipour, A. (2003). Public and private spaces of the city. London:
Routledge.
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14. Marcel H. & Strong, T. B. (Eds.) (2011). Public space and democracy.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
15. Mitchell, D. (2003). The right to the city. Social justice and the fight for
public space. New York: The Guilford Press.
16. Nuttall, S. & Mbembe, A. (2004). Johannesburg: The elusive metropolis.
Durham: Duke University Press.
17. Saco, D. (2002). Cybering democracy: public space and the Internet.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
18. Sennett, R. (1997). The fall of public man. New York: Knopf.
19. Simon Sheikh (Ed.) (2005). In the place of the public sphere? Berlin:
b_books.
20. Springer, S. (2010). Cambodia's neoliberal order: Violence,
authoritarianism, and the contestation of public space. London & New York:
Routledge.
21. Tinnevelt, R. & Geenens, R. (2009). Does truth matter? Democracy and
public space. New York: Springer.
22. Watson, S. (2006). City Publics: The (dis)enchantments of urban
encounters. London & New York: Routledge.
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3. The politics of public space
3a. Theoretical underpinnings
1. Amin, A. & Thrift, N. (2002) Cities: reimagining the urban. Cambridge: Polity
Press.
2. Blomley, N. K. (1994). Law, space, and the geographies of power. New
York: Guilford Press.
3. Cranz, G. (1989). The politics of park design. Cambridge: The MIT Press
4. Harvey, D. (2009). Social justice and the city. Athens: University of Georgia
Press.
5. Lefebvre, H. (1996). Writings on cities. Oxford: Blackwell.
6. Low, S. & Smith, N. (Eds.) (2006). The politics of public space. New York:
Routledge.
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7. Madanipour, A. (ed.) (2010). Whose public space? International case
studies in urban design and development. London: Taylor & Francis.
8. Orum, A. M. & Neal, Z. P. (Eds.) (2010). Common ground? Readings and
reflections on public space. Routledge.
9. Orvell, M. & Meikle, J. L. (Eds.) (2009). Public space and the ideology of
place in American culture. New York: Rodopi.
10. Rotenberg, R. T. (1995). Landscape and power in Vienna. Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press.
11. Touaf, L. & Boutkhil, S. (Ed.) (2008). The world as a global agora: Critical
perspectives on public space. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing.
3b. Contested urban policies
1. Anderson, K. J. (1991) Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial discourse in Canada
1875-1980. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.
2. Bank, L. J. (2011). Home spaces, street styles: Contesting power and
identity in a South African city. Pluto Press.
3. Ghannam, F. (2002). Space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a
global Cairo. Berkeley: University of California Press.
4. Rutheriser, C. (1996). Imagineering Atlanta. New York: Verso
5. Shepard, B. & Smithsimon, G. (2011). The beach beneath the streets:
Contesting New York City's public spaces. Albany: State University of New
York Press
6. Smith, N. (1996). The new urban frontier. Gentrification and the revanchist
city. Routledge.
7. Sorkin, M. (Ed.) (1992). Variations on a theme park: The new American city
and the end of public space. New York: Hill and Wang.
America’s cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new
8. Staeheli, L. A. & Mitchell, D. (2007). The people's property? Power, politics,
and the public. London & New York: Routledge.
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9. King, A. D. (2004). Spaces of global cultures: architecture, urbanism,
identity. London: Routledge.
3c. Street people and street life
1. Amster, R. (2004). Street people and the contested realms of public space.
New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing.
2. Brown, A. (Ed.) (2006). Contested space: Street trading, public space, and
livelihoods in developing cities. Practical Action
3. Çelik, Z., Favro, D., Ingersoll, R. & Kostof, S. (Eds.) (1996). Streets: Critical
perspectives on public space. Berkeley: University of California Press.
4. Duneier, M. (1999). Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999.
5. Ferrell, J. (2011). Tearing down the streets. Adventures in urban anarchy.
New York: Palgrave.
6. Loukaitou-Sideris, A. & Ehrenfeucht, R. (2009). Sidewalks: Conflict and
negotiation over public space. Cambridge: MIT Press.
7. Low, S. M. (2000). On the plaza: The politics of public space and culture.
Austin: University of Texas Press.
8. Wright, T. (1997). Out of place: Homeless mobilizations, subcities, and
contested landscapes. Albany: State University of New York Press
3d. Contested memories
1. Burk, A. L. (2010). Speaking for a long time: public space and social
memory in Vancouver. Vancouver: UBC Press.
2. Hayden, D. (1996). The power of place: Urban landscapes as public history.
Cambridge: MIT Press.
3. Sawalha, A. (2010). Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and space in a postwar
Arab city. University of Texas Press, Austin.
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4. Walkowitz, D. J. & Knauer (2004). Memory and the impact of political
transformation in public space. Durham: Duke University Press Books.
3e. Privatization, securitization and criminalization
1. Amster, R. (2008). Lost in space: The criminalization, globalization, and
urban ecology of homelessness. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing.
2. Beckett, K. & Herbert, S. K. (2009). Banished: the new social control in
urban America. New York : Oxford University Press .
3. Caldeira, T. (2000). City of walls: Crime, segregation, and citizenship in São
Paulo. Berkeley: University of California Press.
4. Chesluk, B. (2007). Money jungle: Imagining the New Times Square. New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press
5. Davis, M. (2006). City of quartz. Excavating the future of Los Angeles.
London: Verso Press.
6. Fussey, P., Coaffee, J., Armstrong, G. & Hobbs, D. (2011). Securing and
sustaining the Olympic City: Reconfiguring London for 2012 and beyond.
London: Ashgate.
7. Kohn, M. (2004). Brave new neighborhoods. The privatization of public
space. New York: Routledge.
8. Low, S. (2003) Behind the gates: life security and the pursuit of happiness in
fortress America. London: Routledge.
9. Mitrasinovic, M. (2006). Total landscape, theme parks, public space.
Aldershot: Ashgate.
10. Nelson, R. H. (2005). Private neighborhoods and the transformation of
local government. Washington: Urban Institute Press.
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11. Wright, S. & Seijdel, J. (2007). Freedom of culture: regulation and
privatization of intellectual property and public space. Rotterdam: NAi
Publishers.
3f. Post-colonial public space
1. Kusno, A. (2000). Behind the postcolonial: architecture, urban space, and
political cultures in Indonesia. London & New York: Routledge.
2. Myers, G. (2003). Verandahs of power: Colonialism and space in urban
Africa. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
3. Varma, R. (2011.) The postcolonial city and its subjects. London, Nairobi,
Bombay. Routledge.
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4. Public space and mobility
1. Carlsson, C. (Ed.) (2002). Critical Mass: Bicycling’s defiant celebration.
Edinburgh: AK Press.
2. Cresswell, T. & Merriman, P. (Eds.) (2011). Geographies of mobilities:
Practices, spaces, subjects. Farnham: Ashgate.
3. Blomley, N. (2010). Rights of passage: Sidewalks and the regulation of
public flow. London & New York: Routledge.
4. Featherstone, M., Thrift, N. J. & Urry, J. (2005). Automobilities. London:
Sage.
5. Urry, J., Larsen, J. & Axhausen, K. (2006). Mobilities, geographies,
networks. London: Ashgate
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5. Social relations in public space
1. Bestor, T. (2004). Tsukiji: The fish market at the center of the world.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
2. Carter, P. (2004). Repressed spaces: The poetics of agoraphobia. London:
Reaktion Books
3. Cattell, V., Curtis, S., Dines, N. & Gesler, W. (2006). Public spaces, social
relations and well-being in East London. Bristol: The Policy Press.
4. Goffman, E. (1971). Relations in public. Microstudies of the public order.
New York, Basic Books.
5. Holland, C., Clark, A., Katz, J. & Peace, S. (2007). Social interactions in
urban public places. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation/Bristol: Policy Press.
6. Lofland, L. H. (1998). The public realm: Exploring the city's quintessential
social territory. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
7. Lofland, L. H. (1973). A world of strangers: Order and action in urban public
space. New York: Basic Books.
8. Morrill, C., Snow, D. A. & White, C. (2005). Together alone: Personal
relationships in public places. Berkeley: University of California Press.
9. Shaftoe, H. (2008). Convivial urban spaces: Creating effective public places.
London & Stearling: Earthscan Publications
10. Stevens, Q. (2007). The ludic city: Exploring the potential of public spaces.
London: Routledge.
11. Studdert, D. & Watson, S. (2006). Markets as sites for social interaction:
Spaces of diversity. Bristol: Policy Press.
12. Valentine, G. (2004). Public space and the culture of childhood. Aldershot:
Ashgate.
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6. Public space and diversity
6a. Cultural diversity
1. Franck, K. A. & Stevens, Q. (2006). Loose space: Possibility and diversity in
urban life. London: Routledge.
2. Low, S. M., Taplin, D. & Scheld, S. (2005). Rethinking urban parks: Public
space and cultural diversity. Austin: University of Texas Press.
6b. Religion
1. Bowen, J. R. (2007). Why the French don't like headscarves: Islam, the
state, and public space. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2. Estrada, W. D. (2008). The Los Angeles plaza: Sacred and contested
space. Austin: University of Texas Press.
3. Werbner, P. (2002). Imagined diasporas among Manchester Muslims: The
public performance of Pakistani transnational identity politics. Oxford: James
Currey
6c. Sexuality and gender
1. Chauncey, G. (1994). Gay New York: Gender, urban culture, and the
making of the gay male world, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books.
2. D’Souza, A. & McDonough, T. (2006). The invisible flâneuse? Gender,
public space and visual culture in nineteenth-century Paris. Manchester:
Manchester University Press.
3. Koning, A. de (2009). Global dreams: class, gender, and public space in
cosmopolitan Cairo. Cairo & New York: American University in Cairo Press.
4. Phadke, S., Khan, S. & Ranade, S. (2011). Why loiter? Women and risk on
Mumbai streets. Penguin India.
5. Retter, Y., Bouthillette, A-M. & Ingram, G. B. (Eds.) (1997). Queers in
space: Communities, public places, sites of resistance. Seattle: Bay Press.
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6. Weisman, L. (1994). Discrimination by design: A feminist critique of the
man-made environment. Chicago: University of Illinois Press
6d. Race and ethnicity
1. Anderson, E. (1999). The Code of the street: Decency, violence and the
moral life of the inner city. William W. Norton & Co., Inc.
2. Gregory, S. (1998). Black Corona: Race and the politics of place in an urban
community. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
3. Jackson, J. L. (2001). Harlemworld: Doing race and class in contemporary
Black America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
4. Walkowitz, D. J. & Knauer, L. M. (Eds.) (2008) Contested histories in public
space: Memory, race, and nation. Durham: Duke University Press.
5. Yücesoy, E. Ü. (2006). Everyday urban public space: Turkish immigrant
women's perspective. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis.
6e. Ability
1. Garland-Thomson, R. (2009). Staring: How we look. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
2. Imrie, R. (1996). Disability and the city: International perspectives. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan
3. Schweik, S. (2009). The ugly laws: Disability in public. New York: New York
University Press.
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7. Art and public space
1. Boykoff, J. & Sand, K. (2008). Landscapes of dissent: guerrilla poetry &
public space. Long Beach, CA: Palm Press.
2. Charity, R. (2005). Re Views: artists and public space. London: Black Dog
Pub.
3. Deutsche, R. (1996). Evictions: Art and spatial politics. Cambridge &
London: MIT Press.
4. McCarthy, A. (2011). Ambient television: visual culture and public space.
Durham: Duke University Press.
5. Miles, M. (1997). Art, space and the city. London: Routledge.
6. Donald, S. H. (2000). Public secrets, public spaces: Cinema and civility in
China. Landham: Rowman & Littlefield.
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8. Design and planning of public space
1. Baird, G. (2011). Public space. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Boom / SUN.
2. Beard, V. A., Miraftab, F. & Silver, C. (2008). Planning and decentralization:
Contested spaces for public action in the global South. London & New York:
Routledge.
3. Carr, S., Francis, M., Rivlin, L. G. & Stone, A. M. (Eds.) (1995). Public space.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Evans, B. & McDonald, F. (2011). Space, place, life: Learning from place.
London: Taylor & Francis.
5. Fincher, R. & Iveson, K. (2008). Planning and diversity in the city:
redistribution, recognition and encounter. Houndmills, Basingstoke,
Hampshire, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan.
6. Ford, L. R. (2000). The spaces between buildings. Baltimore/London: The
Johns Hopkins University Press
7. Fyfe, N. (1998). Images of the street: Planning, identity and control in public
space. London & New York: Routledge.
8. Herzog, L. A. (2006). Return to the center: Culture, public space, and citybuilding in a global era. Austin: University of Texas.
9. Jacobs, J. (1961). The death and life of great American cities. New York:
Random House.
10. Lehtovuori, P. (2010). Experience and conflict: The production of urban
space. Aldershot: Ashgate.
11. Lynch, K. (1960). The image of the city. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
12. Madanipour, A. (1996). Design of urban space: An inquiry into a sociospatial process. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
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13. Marusic, B. G. & Niksic, M. (2010). Human cities: celebrating public space.
Stichting Kunstboek.
14. Miller, K. F. (2007). Designs on the public: The private lives of New York's
public spaces. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
15. Peattie, L (1968). The view from the Barrio. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press.
16. Whyte, W. H. (2001). The social life of small urban spaces. New York: Project
for Public Spaces.
17. Worpole, K. (2000). Here comes the sun: architecture and public space in
twentieth-century European culture. London: Reaktion.
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