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Democracy and Public Space - The Physical Sites of Democratic Performance (Paperback)
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Democracy and Public Space - The Physical Sites of Democratic Performance (Paperback)
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In an online, interconnected world, democracy is increasingly made
up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweets. Citizens have become
accidental journalists thanks to their handheld devices,
politicians are increasingly working online, and the traditional
sites of democracy - assemblies, public galleries, and plazas - are
becoming less and less relevant with every new technology. And yet,
this book argues, such views are leading us to confuse the medium
with the message, focusing on electronic transmission when often
what cyber citizens transmit is pictures and narratives of real
democratic action in physical space. Democratic citizens are
embodied, take up space, battle over access to physical resources,
and perform democracy on physical stages at least as much as they
engage with ideas in virtual space. Combining conceptual analysis
with interviews and observation in capital cities on every
continent, John Parkinson argues that democracy requires physical
public space; that some kinds of space are better for performing
some democratic roles than others; and that some of the most
valuable kinds of space are under attack in developed democracies.
He argues that accidental publics like shoppers and lunchtime
crowds are increasingly valued over purposive, active publics, over
citizens with a point to make or an argument to listen to. This can
be seen not just in the way that traditional protest is regulated,
but in the ways that ordinary city streets and parks are managed,
even in the design of such quintessentially democratic spaces as
legislative assemblies. The book offers an alternative vision for
democratic public space, and evaluates 11 cities - from London to
Tokyo - against that ideal.
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