Streets

Question 1

What does the street symbolise?

Answer 1

(Boddy 1992)

Public life, with all its human contact, conflict, and tolerance

Question 2

What is the street celebrated as?

Answer 2

(Valentine 2001)

A site of political action, an environment for unmediated encounters with strangers and a place of inclusiveness

Question 3

The street is increasingly being shaped by processes of moral regulation (and resistance).

Answer 3

(Mitchell, 2003)

Demands for heightened surveillance and security throw into sharp relief timeless questions about the nature of public space, how it is to be used, and under what conditions.