As soon as you take that first step outside of your property or workplace, I would consider it public space, but maybe this is too vague or naive. Public space floods through cities and the countryside, from national parks to town squares, it’s everywhere. They offer space to congregate, to explore or create, to sit and to rest. However, these envrionments are also broken up by bursts of private land or properties. What I find confusing is “public space” in cities, a lot of these concrete flatlands are actually privately-owned, this is visible from the hostile street furniture provided – they’re designed in such a way to deter us from staying long past our welcoming. So are these corporate spaces public if they don’t belong to us? I still think so.
