Beyond Zuccotti Park

In the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, leading planers and social scientists examine public space today and freedom of assembly. The Occupy Wall Street movement has challenged the physical manifestation of the First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly. Where and how can people congregate today? Forty social scientists, planners, architects, and civil liberties experts explore the definition, use, role, and importance of public space for the exercise of our democratic rights to free expression. The book also discusses whose voice is heard and what factors limit the participation of minorities in Occupy activities. This foundational work puts issues of democracy and civic engagement back into the center of dialogue about the built environment. Beyond Zuccotti Park is a collaborative effort of Pratt Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, City College of New York School of Architecture, New Village Press and its parent organization, Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility. The book is part of an open civic inquiry on the part of these organizations. The project was seeded by a series of free public forums, Freedom of Assembly: Public Space Today, held at the Center for Architecture in response to the forced clearance of Occupy activities from Zuccotti Park and public plazas throughout the country. The first two recorded programs took place on December 17, 2011 and February 4, 2012.

Ronald Shiffman (Editor) Ronald Shiffman, FAICP, is the former director of the Pratt Center for Community Development, which he cofounded in 1964. He was awarded the 2012 Jane Jacobs Medal for Lifetime Leadership for his work to promote community-based activism over the last fifty years. Rick Bell (Editor) Rick Bell, FAIA, is executive director of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He was instrumental in the creation of AIA's New York New Visions design and planning coalition, which has helped to catalyze and critique the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan. Lance Jay Brown (Editor) Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, DPACSA, is the principal of Lance Jay Brown Architecture + Urban Design in New York City, fellow of the Institute for Urban Design, ACSA Distinguished Professor at the Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, and president-elect 2014 of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter. Lynne Elizabeth (Editor) Lynne Elizabeth is founder and director of New Village Press. She is the past president of Architects/ Designers/ Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), a public-benefit educational organization founded in 1981 that works for peace, environmental protection, social justice, and development of healthy communities.

DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD MICHAEL KIMMELMAN INTRODUCTION LANCE JAY BROWN and RON SHIFFMAN 1. OCCUPY! Occupying Public Space, 2011: From Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park KAREN A. FRANCK and TE-SHENG HUANG Occupy Wall Street, Social Movements, and Contested Public Space BENJAMIN SHEPARD "A Stiff Clarifying Test Is in Order": Occupy and Negotiating Rights in Public Space GREGORY SMITHSIMON Being There WENDY E. BRAWER and BRENNAN S. CAVANAUGH Politics Out of Place: Occupy Wall Street and the Rhetoric of "Filth" JULIAN BRASH To Occupy SASKIA SASSEN The Office of the People GAN GOLAN Some Unresolved Constitutional Questions ARTHUR EISENBERG 2. EMPLACING EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Making Public, Beyond Public Space JEFFREY HOU Freedom Corner: Reflections on a Public Space for Dissent in a Fractured City MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE with TERRI BALTIMORE Occupying Dissent: A Conversation with Maya Wiley RON SHIFFMAN Whose Voice: The Limited Participation of People of Color in the Occupy Movement ROLAND V. ANGLIN Emplacing Democratic Design MICHAEL RIOS 3. REIMAGINING PUBLIC SPACE The Sidewalks of New York MICHAEL SORKIN Radical Imagination CARON ATLAS Room to Grow Something PAULA Z. SEGAL Openhearted Cities LYNNE ELIZABETH Life and Death in Public Places NIKKI STERN 4. PUBLIC SPACE OVER TIME The Grass Is Always Greener: A Brief History of Public Space and Protest in New York City and London LISA KELLER The Romance of Public Space MARSHALL BERMAN Places that Matter: Zuccotti Park Before / After / Now ALEXANDER COOPER Public Space and Its Disconnects RICK BELL Public Space Then and in the Future LANCE JAY BROWN Pushing Back Boundaries: How Social Movements are Redefining the Public Space SADRA SHAHAB and SHIRIN BARGHI 5. RESPONSIVE CHANGE 5.1. Public Sector Agents of Change Occupy and the Provision of Public Space: The City's Responsibilities PETER MARCUSE Is "Public Space" Possible? DAVID BURNEY Making Places-and Governing Them-for Democracy BRAD LANDER and MICHAEL FREEDMAN-SCHNAPP Making Cities Work JANETTE SADIK-KHAN 5.2 Designers and Developers as Agents of Change Blurring the Boundaries to Keep Public Space Public PAUL BROCHES When Domestic Space Meets Civic Space: A Case for Design Populism MICHAEL PYATOK Shaping Public Space, Shaping Our City SUSAN CHIN Public Space: Opening Streets and Sidewalks JONATHAN MARVEL Designed to Be Occupied SIGNE NIELSEN POPS, Out of the Shadows: A Designer's Perspective THOMAS BALSLEY Developing the Public Realm: A Conversation with Jonathan Rose RON SHIFFMAN Programming Public Space: A Conversation with Carlton Brown RON SHIFFMAN with ANASTASSIA FISYAK A CALL FOR ACTIONS RON SHIFFMAN and JEFFREY HOU CONTRIBUTORS INDEX