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Book Review: Common Ground? Readings and Reflections on Public Space

Book Review: Common Ground? Readings and Reflections on Public Space Book Review COMMON GROUND?READINGS AND REFLECTIONS ON PUBLIC SPACE, edited by Anthony M. Orum and Zachary P. Neal. New York: Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-415-99727-0 (paper); 227 pp. Reviewed by Lyn H. Lofland University of California Orum and Neal have produced what is, to my knowledge, the first collection of pre- viously published work focused exclusively on public space and intended primarily for classroom adoption. A portion of the 15 selections will be familiar to most urbanists (es- pecially pieces by Jacobs, Whyte, Oldenburg, Baumgartner, Anderson, Davis, and Zukin), but many less familiar (at least to me) names are represented as well, including Don Mitchell’s discussion of the history and fate of Berkeley’s People’s Park, a fascinating analysis by Timothy Dreischer comparing “billboard subversion” to the more familiar “graffiti,” and a detailed look at the conflict over the placement of Richard Serra’s public art piece, “Tilted Arc” by Caroline Levine. Beyond being a first book of reprints focused on public space and beyond the inclusion of authors with whom most readers of this journal will likely be unacquainted, the editors have given us something else new. They have proposed a scheme for making sense of the admittedly disparate social science http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

Book Review: Common Ground? Readings and Reflections on Public Space

Lofland, Lyn H.
City and Community , Volume 9 (4): 1 – Dec 1, 2010
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© 2010 American Sociological Association
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Book Review COMMON GROUND?READINGS AND REFLECTIONS ON PUBLIC SPACE, edited by Anthony M. Orum and Zachary P. Neal. New York: Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-415-99727-0 (paper); 227 pp. Reviewed by Lyn H. Lofland University of California Orum and Neal have produced what is, to my knowledge, the first collection of pre- viously published work focused exclusively on public space and intended primarily for classroom adoption. A portion of the 15 selections will be familiar to most urbanists (es- pecially pieces by Jacobs, Whyte, Oldenburg, Baumgartner, Anderson, Davis, and Zukin), but many less familiar (at least to me) names are represented as well, including Don Mitchell’s discussion of the history and fate of Berkeley’s People’s Park, a fascinating analysis by Timothy Dreischer comparing “billboard subversion” to the more familiar “graffiti,” and a detailed look at the conflict over the placement of Richard Serra’s public art piece, “Tilted Arc” by Caroline Levine. Beyond being a first book of reprints focused on public space and beyond the inclusion of authors with whom most readers of this journal will likely be unacquainted, the editors have given us something else new. They have proposed a scheme for making sense of the admittedly disparate social science

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