March 19, 2013

The Video: "Is public space a public good" by Mark Kingwell

Here is the video of the Warren Gill Memorial Lecture:  “Is Public Space a Public Good?” by Mark Kingwell, presented on FEBRUARY 21, 2013 at SFU Woodward’s.

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Public space is routinely seen as the cure to every imaginable urban ill, from air quality to obesity. But how much of what we call public space is really public?  Author and critic Mark Kingwell considers this problem, together with its implications for the notion of urban play and the so-called ‘right to the city.’

Watch video here.
Synopsis by Katie Stowe here.

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