Essay On Public Space

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What makes a successful public space?
This essay will explore the ideas and processes of what makes a public space successful and how it becomes successful. The focus of this essay is to discuss and discover the extent to which some processes will make a public more successful than the other. Public space is a term used to describe a place as a space in which all citizens have a right of access to, there are many definitions of public space however they all suggest some type of public interaction taking place. Another definition could be a space where the public is formed and where social and cultural rules governing behaviour are predominate (Mitchell and Staeheli, 2009) Something else to pick out is the word ‘successful’; this could be regarding the environment, social aspects, or economic aspects. The themes that this essay will explore in relation to the success of public space are exclusion and inclusion, social value, social interaction and domestication. To support these themes about what does and does not make a public space successful, the use of …show more content…

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