Madanipour
Name at least one of the four reasons for the emerging interest in public spaces.
the changing balance between the public and private sectors
the structural economic changes that transform cities
the technological changes that disperse the space of cities
the diversification of the urban population
What is one of the 5 propositions of how to create justice in public space offered by Low & Iveson?
-Distributive Justice
-Recognition
-Encounter and Interactional Justice
-Care & Repair
-Procedural Justice
Give at least one example Sorto gives to make trails safer.
Clean trash
Restrooms
Police Call Box
Lighting
Pavement
Trashcans
Programming and safety protocols
An approach to urban planning that focuses on community and public wellbeing.
What is placemaking?
The separation of social, ethnic, and wealth groups through landscape and urban structure.
What is urban spatial fragmentation?
One of the political examples/locations the article mentions to describe Encounter and Interactional Justice.
What is Tahrir Square in Egypt and Occupy Wall Street in NYC?
A way to be more inclusive to migrant communities in public space.
What is providing signs in their native languages?
Policies put in place that believe visible signs of crime create an environment that encourages crime.
What is "broken windows" policing?
The process by which wealthy individuals take over a considerably poorer area in order to renovate it, while excluding or displacing the original population that lived in that space.
What is gentrification?
A signal that has been said to suggest a community does not care or take care of itself.
What is a broken window?
Policies or initiatives that can help develop more accessible public spaces:
What are DEIA policies or Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access policies?
A policy where police are allowed to detain people temporarily in public places without a warrant as long as they have reasonable suspicion that you are involved in illegal activity, and are also allowed to conduct a pat down search if they think you are armed.
What are "stop and frisk" policies?
Results in the loss of privacy and individual freedom.
What does the intervention of the public sphere into the private sphere result in?
The two holidays the article uses to describe Care & Repair in Australia.
What are Graffiti Action Day and Keep Australia Colourful Day?
In his call to action, Sorto uses this to encourage the U.S. government to utilize in creating safer public spaces.
What is the $1 Trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill?
A process used to develop the growth and success of an urban space, 'revitalizing' the area.
What is urban revitalization?
Creates individual gain and collective loss.
What does the encroachment of the private sphere into the public sphere create?
Methods of ensuring justice, according to the writer Sorja mentioned in the article.
What is “the vigilant defense of public space against the forces of commodification, privatization, and state interference”?
What Sorto was training for that inspired him to write his blog post.
What is the Houston Marathon?
A phrase used to describe a public space seen as under-used by the public, and therefore should be renovated for another use (typically by corporations).
What is the activation of under-utilized space?