Public Space As Resource

Part Two starts with Chapter Six, which examines public space through the economic dimensions of social inclusion, as public space can be both a resource and a medium of access to resources. It corresponds to the first notion of public as totality, structured into four sections: public space as the negation of the exclusionary forces of private control, its relationship with economic exchange, the implications of conflict and difference perspectives, and the entanglement, transgression, and negation between public and private spaces. It shows how public space can emerge from, and become a condition of possibility, for private transactions, but also be in danger of being used as an instrument, or ultimately taken over as an asset, by these forces.