The Need For Public Space

Public space has always interested me immensely: the necessity of public spaces were people can meet and congregate and play and just be, together in public for free. The free part os very important. A true public space belongs to the public, the entirety of the public, no groups or individuals are excluded. You can spend as long as you want in the space, and you don’t have to pay or ask permission from anyone. One of the worst things about capitalist society is the illegal privatisation of space. The government parcels off and sells the public domain bit by bit leaving us, the people, the public with less and less places we can freely be.

Hand in hand with public space is the need for more green in our cities and more locations to sit in. I wrote about this before, sitting amongst other…