John Dewey defines public as “ all those who are affected by the indirect consequences of transactions to such an extent that it is deemed necessary to have those consequences systematically cared for.” Parkinson’s concept of private is “ A sphere of activity that’s is the locus of initiative in which individuals make autonomous decisions.” Today public spaces have become severely privatized. The formation of controlled domains has lead to the sanitization of public spaces. There is a very strict definition between the formal and the informal sector, which therefor leads to citizenship being marginalized economically socially and politically. It does not involve the participation of the ‘other’. The most important fact about the public realm …show more content…
The exclusion of the “undesirables” from commercial centers is the limit to their complete status of public space. If the diversity that people learn to interact with is controlled, “ sanitized “ and devoid of any risk of unsettling encounters, the learning and civility that is produced is necessarily contained within a restricted definition of who the members of society are. More and more commercial centers cater to a specific income bracket, which means that a class selection operates seamlessly to separate the population and produce in the public realm a division. So where then is the true public …show more content…
The exclusion of the “undesirables” from commercial centers is the limit to their complete status of public space. If the diversity that people learn to interact with is controlled, “ sanitized “ and devoid of any risk of unsettling encounters, the learning and civility that is produced is necessarily contained within a restricted definition of who the members of society are. More and more commercial centers cater to a specific income bracket, which means that a class selection operates seamlessly to separate the population and produce in the public realm a division. So where then is the true public