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The Public Realm: Exploring the City's Quintessential Social Territory (Communication and Social Order)
The Public Realm Exploring the City's Quintessential Social Territory - Communication and Social Order Author:Lyn H. Lofland This book is about the "public realm," defined as a particular kind of social territory that is found almost exclusively in large settlements. This particular form of social-psychological space comes into being whenever a piece of actual physical space is dominated by relationships between and among persons who are strangers to one another, as o... more »ften occurs in urban bars, buses, plazas, parks, coffee houses, streets, and so forth. More specifically, the book is about the social life that occurs in such social-psychological space and the forces that threaten it.« less