The Public Realm: Exploring the City's Quintessential Social Territory

by Lyn H. Lofland

Book Overview

This book is about the "public realm," defined as a particular kind of social territory that is found almost exclusively in large settlements. This particular form of social-psychological space comes into being whenever a piece of actual physical space is dominated by relationships between and among persons who are strangers to one another, as often occurs in urban bars, buses, plazas, parks, coffee houses, streets, and so forth. More specifically,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202306089
• ISBN13: 9780202306087
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"