A Right to the Suburb? New Urbanism, Public Space, and the Law

Anthony Maniscalco — 2014-12-08T05:50:00Z

The American suburb is changing. It is racially and economically diverse. Its sterile spaces are being redesigned for more community life. And yet, even in the community spaces in redesigned suburbs, rights to free speech and protest are legally denied, as the spaces are still private. As our suburbs become more like cities, can we create genuine public spaces for politics?
No longer homogeneous bedroom communities or exclusively white, middle-class commuter enclaves, America's suburbs are

- Essays / public space, placemaking, United States, social justice, suburbs, New Urbanism, edge cities, protest

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A Right to the Suburb? New Urbanism, Public Space, and the Law