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Public spaces

Here are entered works on those areas, such as streets, parks, places of public accomodation, etc., which are freely accessible to the public.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Cities and towns

• Public spaces -- Asia
• Public spaces -- California
• Public spaces -- France
• Public spaces -- Greece
• Public spaces -- Lebanon
• Public spaces -- New York (State)
• Public spaces -- Philosophy
• Public spaces -- Research
• Public spaces -- Social aspects
• Public spaces -- United States
• Urban parks

• Public places
• Social areas
• Urban public spaces
• Urban spaces

• Cities in Asia by and for the People (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, and Rita Padawangi (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016), by Kristin V. Monroe
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Queering Urbanism: Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024), by Stathis G. Yeros
  • multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR

• Crescendo of the Virtuoso: Spectacle, Skill, and Self-Promotion in Paris During the Age of Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Paul Metzner (HTML at UC Press)

• Small Objects from the Pnyx II (Hesperia supplement #10; Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1956), by Lucy Talcott, Barbara Philippaki, G. Roger Edwards, and Virginia Grace (PDF with commentary in Greece)
• Small Objects from the Pnyx I (Hesperia supplement #7; Athens: American School of Classical Studies, 1943), by Gladys Davidson Weinberg and Dorothy Burr Thompson (PDF with commentary in Greece)

• Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York's Public Spaces (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2007), by Kristine F. Miller (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v18; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2016), ed. by Anette Baldauf, Stefan Gruber, Moira Hille, Annette Krauss, Vladimir Miller, Mara Verlič, Hong-Kai Wang, and Julia Wieger (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v18; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2016), ed. by Anette Baldauf, Stefan Gruber, Moira Hille, Annette Krauss, Vladimir Miller, Mara Verlič, Hong-Kai Wang, and Julia Wieger (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Robert Rosenberger (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Making Publics, Making Places (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2016), ed. by Mary Griffiths and Kim Barbour (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Unsafe and Harassed in Public Spaces: A National Street Harassment Report (Reston, VA: Stop Street Harassment, 2014), by Holly Kearl (PDF with commentary at stopstreetharassment.org)

• Making a Middle Landscape (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files with commentary at MIT)

• The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America (originally published 1982; this edition Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Galen Cranz (PDF files at MIT)

• The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America (originally published 1982; this edition Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Galen Cranz (PDF files at MIT)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Our Digital Rights to the City (London: Meatspace Press, 2017), ed. by Joe Shaw and Mark Graham (multiple formats wth commentary at meatspacepress.com)
• Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam, by Hubert Howe Bancroft (Gutenberg text)
• A Treatise Concerning The Causes of the Magnificency and Greatness of Cities, by Giovanni Botero, trans. by Robert Peterson (text at McMaster)
• Della Ragione di Stato: Libri Dieci, con Tre Libri Delle Cause Della Grandezza delle Città (in Italian; Venice: Appreso i Gioliti, 1598), by Giovanni Botero (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Thrilling Cities (c1963), by Ian Fleming (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Cities in Asia by and for the People (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, and Rita Padawangi (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964), by Jean Gottmann (PDF files at MIT)

• Belgian Democracy: Its Early History, by Henri Pirenne, trans. by J. V. Saunders (PDF at McMaster)

• Canadian Cities of Romance (New York: George H. Doran, c1922), by Katherine Hale, illust. by Dorothy Stevens (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Mormon Towns in the Region of the Colorado (University of Utah Anthropological Papers #32; 1958), by Leland Hargrave Creer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Old English Towns (combined edition of earlier 2 volumes; London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1909), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old English Towns (New York: F. A. Stokes, ca. 1912), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Town Life in the Fifteenth Century (2 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1894), by Alice Stopford Green
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Gutenberg text

• Seven English Cities, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales (main report and first set of appendixes only; London: C. Knight, 1835), by Great Britain Commission for Inquiring into the State of the Several Municipal Corporations in England and Wales (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gild Merchant: A Contribution to British Municipal History (1890), by Charles Gross
  • Volume I: PDF at McMaster
  • Volume II: PDF at McMaster

• Probestücke von Städtemauern des Alten Griechenlands (in German; Munich et al.: J. G. Cotta, 1831), by William Gell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Urbanization and Growth (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2009), ed. by Michael Spence, Patricia Clarke Annez, and Robert M. Buckley (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964), by Jean Gottmann (PDF files at MIT)
• A Communications Theory of Urban Growth (Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University by MIT Press, 1962), by Richard L. Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metropolitan Area as a Racial Problem (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1958), by Morton Grodzins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Growth of Cities, by Henry Philip Tappan (page images at MOA)

• London and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Derek Keene (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2012), ed. by Matthew P. Davies and James A. Galloway (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Town Planning in Ancient Dekkan (Chennai: Printed at the Law Printing House, ca. 1916), by C. P. Venkatarama Ayyar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Deep Mapping the Media City (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2015), by Shannon Christine Mattern (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Cities of Northern and Central Italy (3 volumes; London: Daldy, Isbister and Co., 1876), by Augustus J. C. Hare
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Treatise Concerning The Causes of the Magnificency and Greatness of Cities, by Giovanni Botero, trans. by Robert Peterson (text at McMaster)
• Della Ragione di Stato: Libri Dieci, con Tre Libri Delle Cause Della Grandezza delle Città (in Italian; Venice: Appreso i Gioliti, 1598), by Giovanni Botero (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Magic City (London: Macmillan, 1910), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Magic City, by E. Nesbit (multiple formats at standardebooks.org)

• Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Benjamin N. Vis (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Western Montana (1913), by Western Montana Association of Commercial Clubs (Javascript-dependent page images at umt.edu)

• Along New England Shores (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936), by A. Hyatt Verrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Seaport Towns of New England (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1916), by Hildegarde Hawthorne, illust. by John Albert Seaford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Norfolk, the Marine Metropolis of Virginia, and the Sound and River Cities of North Carolina: A Narrative (Raleigh, NC: Geo. I Nowitzky, 1888), by George I. Nowitzky (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• Lisbon and Cintra, With Some Account of Other Cities and Historical Sites in Portugal (London: Chatto and WIndus, 1907), by A. C. Inchbold, illust. by Stanley Inchbold (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.