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Maintaining a public space commons requires constant collective appropriation and activism, autonomous in the face of both state and market control. The language of the commons has become ubiquitous in debates about public space. For much of the 20th century, the state enjoyed hegemony over the imaginaries of public placemaking, at least in Europe and North America. The roll-out of neoliberal urban policies from the 1980s onwards complicated this picture, with increasing pressure from business interests to introduce a revanchist agenda marked by exclusion and enclosure. In the 1990s, against the background of rampant privatisation and the rise of zero-tolerance policies, critics including urban theorists Mike Davis and Michael Sorkin declared the end of public space, and intense controversy raged over the decline of publicness and its consequences for democracy. However, this analysis failed to identify ongoing struggles to appropriate publicness from below: the creative energy that keeps public spaces alive.
Maintaining a public space commons requires constant collective appropriation and activism, autonomous in the face of both state and market control. The language of the commons has become ubiquitous in debates about public space. For much of the 20th century, the state enjoyed hegemony over the imaginaries of public placemaking, at least in Europe and North America. The roll-out of neoliberal urban policies from the 1980s onwards complicated this picture, with increasing pressure from business interests to introduce a revanchist agenda marked by exclusion and enclosure. In the 1990s, against the background of rampant privatisation and the rise of zero-tolerance policies, critics including urban theorists Mike Davis and Michael Sorkin declared the end of public space, and intense controversy raged over the decline of publicness and its consequences for democracy. However, this analysis failed to identify ongoing struggles to appropriate publicness from below: the creative energy that keeps public spaces alive.
Publicity
Sevilla Buitrago, Álvaro (author)
2022-07-01
Architectural Review, ISSN 0003-861X, 2022-07, No. 1493
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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