Michael T. Martin

culture & the contemporary city

These are public spaces. Spaces for gathering, leisure, meeting and interacting – these spaces should be the reason we live in cities. Where the state and the interests of owners have made them inaccessible, exclusive or dangerous, it is up to us to make sure that they are safe, inclusive and just.

To the Occupy movement – the occupiers of Tahrir Square are with you | Comrades from Cairo via The Guardian