Table of Contents

Miles ORVELL & Jeffrey L. MEIKLE: Introduction
Part One: Public Space as Symbol
Anna MINTA: Planning a National Pantheon: Monuments in Washington, D.C., and the Creation of Symbolic Space
John F. SEARS: ‘How the Devil It Got There’: The Politics of Form and Function in the Smithsonian ‘Castle’
Torben Huus LARSEN: The Museum of Appalachia and the Invention of an Idyllic Past
Miles ORVELL: Constructing Main Street: Utopia and the Imagined Past
Jeffrey L. MEIKLE: Pasteboard Views: Idealizing Public Space in American Postcards, 1931–1953
Part Two: Contesting Public Space
Nadine KLOPFER: ‘Terra Incognita’ in the Heart of the City? Montreal and Mount Royal around 1900
Peter B. HALES: Grid, Regulation, Desire Line: Contests Over Civic Space in Chicago
Laura LAWSON: The Precarious Nature of Semi-Public Space: Community Garden Appeal, Complacency, and Implications for Sustaining User-Initiated Places
Kay F. EDGE: Buy, Sell, Roam: The Airport Calculus of Retail
Bryant SIMON: Consuming Third Place: Starbucks and the Illusion of Public Space
Rickie SANDERS: The Public Space of Urban Communities
Part Three: The Mutability of Public Space
Eric J. SANDEEN: Walking the High Line
Kerstin SCHMIDT: The Search for a Democratic Architecture: A New Sense of Space and the Reconfiguration of American Architecture
Timothy DAVIS: Designed Space vs. Social Space: Intention and Appropriation in an American Urban Park
David E. NYE: Public Space Transformed: New York’s Blackouts
Sarah LURIA: Air and Space
Andrew S. GROSS: Imagining the Interstate: Henry Miller, Post-Tourism, and the Disappearance of American Place
Klaus BENESCH: Writing Grounds: Ecocriticism, Dumping Sites, and the Place of Literature in a Posthuman Age