The following is a list of relevant readings. Feel free to comment on any of these or make a suggestion.

PUBLIC SPACE/SPHERE

• Four Models of the Public Sphere in Modern Democracies by Ferree, Gamson, Gerhards and Rucht
  • A great survey and way to frame theories of the public sphere
• Contesting the Public Realm: Struggles over Public Space in Los Angeles by Margaret Crawford
  • This article changed the way this projected developed and considers public space but only the first page (shown above) was is available publicly.
• This project is inevitably about public space. There are 3 camps of thought that Doug Kelbaugh summarizes in this excerpt. From Doug’s excerpt:
  • New Urbanism is utopian (or at least reformist), inspirational in style and structuralist in conception.
  • Everyday Urbanism is non-utopian or atopian, conversational, and nonstructuralist.
  • Post Urbanism, probably better labeled Koolhaas Urbanism among design professionals and academicians, is heterotopian, sensational and post structuralist.
• Michigan debates on Urbanism: a series of fascinating debates on the 3 major theories.  Each book is a debate between two premier thinkers, a proponent and opponent of the given theory
  • Everday Urbanism
  • Post-Urbanism
  • New Urbanism
• Public Space by Habermas – An Encylopedic Definition
  • A short work from the person who defined the classic understanding of the public sphere