Public Space Quotes
33 quotes by 28 authors
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The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.
— danah boyd
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There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused…
— Vito Acconci
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If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend…
— Hannah Arendt
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All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on…
— Leon Krier
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I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a…
— Daniel Libeskind
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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise…
— Rebecca Solnit
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You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all…
— Martin Parr
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Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete…
— Ellen Lupton
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I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument is simple, which…
— Gary Bauer
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Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.
— Sheila Jeffreys
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Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies-…
— James Howard Kunstler
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We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
— Rebecca Solnit
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I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong,
— Janet Echelman
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I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us…
— Frances O'Grady
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Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification
— Roger Scruton
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In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps…
— Rowan Pelling
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As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a…
— Susie Orbach
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Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could…
— Carole King
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I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st…
— Antony Gormley
Who Wrote These Public Space Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 33 Public Space Quotes, led by these top contributors: