Book Review: Public Space: Notes on Why it Matters, What We Should Know, and How to Realize its Potential

Abstract

In this book review, Dr. Pat Crawford will discuss Vikas Mehta’s new book, Public Space: Notes on Why it Matters, What We Should Know, and How to Realize its Potential. Dr. Mehta approaches public space from a deep disciplinary grounding in planning, urban design, sociology and architecture, and his new book captures the diverse disciplinary ways of understanding and knowing public space.