As I read through Sharon Zukin’s work, on the corporatization of Union Square, I could hardly keep myself from relating it back to an article I had read over the weekend. Just as the citizens of New York lost control over Union Square to corporate interests, the citizens of Brooklyn […]
Daily Archives: March 19, 2019
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In Talmudic discourse, public domains and private domains are distinct legal entities, each with its own set of rules. The rabbis therefore grapple with how to define certain spaces that don’t neatly fit into either category, possessing characteristics of both types of domain. Union Square might well be the sort […]
Private ownership of public spaces has become an increasingly prominent phenomenon in NYC, although there are mixed feelings about its use. One instance I found which outlines one of the issues associated with it is the Occupy Wall Street protest. In an article outlining the Occupy Wall Street protest in […]
Union Square to me has always been a public space to me that has been seemingly inclusive and welcoming to the people of New York City. After reading Zukin’s work, I cannot see the famed space the same. Although nothing can take away its historic importance to the very fabric […]
