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
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