Books and Articles on Public Space: a short bibliography
The following bibliography represents a very incomplete list of books, articles and other documents connected with public space. We're putting it up one scribbled list at a time! Full reference material for the texts as well as brief annotations on content will be added shortly. If you know of items that should be on this list please let us know. More content will be coming shortly.
General
- Carr, Stephen. Public space.
- Jacobs, Jane. The death and life of great American cities. A classic on the subject… containing specific chapters on sidewalks, parks, neighbourhoods.
- Light, Andrew. The Production of public space.
- William H. Whyte. The Essential William H. White. New York: Fordham University Press, 2000. (Contains "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" and other key publications). VPL Ref: SOC 307.76 W62e.
Local
- Kim Hendess / Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST). How to reclaim your street: a community guide. 2003. VPL Ref: SOC 307.7609711 H49h.
- Mark Douglas Lowes. Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares: Speed Merchants, Spectacle, and the Struggle over Public Space in the World-Class City. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Uses Hastings Park community and local opposition to relocation of the Vancouver Molson Indy as a means to looking at the role that "sporting spectacles play in the making of a 'world-class' city." VPL Ref: SOC 307.7609711 L91i.
- For City of Vancouver materials (policies, by-laws, guidelines and other documents) see the Links page.
Politics of Public Space
- Low, Setha M. The politics of public space
- Hénaff, Marcel. Public space and democracy
- Mitchell, Don. The right to the city : social justice and the fight for public space
- Ridgley, Jennifer. Theorizing the transnational public sphere [microform] : space, scale and the Third Summit of the Americas in Quebec City.
Street Space
- Amster, Randall. Street people and the contested realms of public space.
- Çelik, Zeynep. Streets : critical perspectives on public space .
- Fyfe, Nicholas R. Images of the street : planning, identity, and control in public space.
- Kim Hendess / Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST). How to reclaim your street: a community guide. 2003. VPL Ref: SOC 307.7609711 H49h.
Parks and Greenspace
- Low, Setha M. Rethinking urban parks : public space & cultural diversity 1st ed.
Public Art / Artspace
- Charity, Ruth. Re views : artists and public space.
Privatization of Public Space
- Byers, Jack. Privatization of Downtown Public Space - Jnl article
- Kohn, Margaret. Brave new neighborhoods : the privatization of public space. A short review at the American Political Science Association website.
Security, Surveillance and CCTV
- Fyfe, Nicholas R. Images of the street : planning, identity, and control in public space.
- Wakefield, Alison. Selling security : the private policing of public space
Electronic Space
- Aurigi, Alessandro. Making the digital city : the early shaping of urban Internet space
- Saco, Diana. Cybering democracy : public space and the Internet
- Schuler, Douglas. Public space in cyberspace : library advocacy in the information age
Gendered Space
- Drucker, Susan J. Voices in the street : explorations in gender, media, and public space
- Leap, William. Public sex/gay space
Miscellaneous
- Ciorra, Pippo. Publi-CITY : techniques for the survival of public space.
- Valentine, Gill. Public space and the culture of childhood.
- Smiley, David J. Sprawl and public space : redressing the mall.