{"id":304,"date":"2018-05-13T15:18:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T14:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2018-05-15T22:35:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T21:35:49","slug":"the-public-realm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"The public realm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been researching what the use of prohibitive semiotics tells us about what we regard as public spaces; and have been particularly interested in these writers when it comes to discussing what is meant when we say <em>public space<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lefevre agues that each historical period produces the <em>kind of public space<\/em>, and therefore <em>public life<\/em>, which reflects the political realities of the time.<\/p>\n<p>So what does that say about Britain right now when Minton describes how what we consider to be the <em>public realm<\/em> is no longer public at all, with cities now run by a mix of private companies and individual landlords.<\/p>\n<p>This has parallels with the issues brought to light by the Facebook \/ Cambridge Analytica scandal, with developers and landowners the <em>physical platforms<\/em> whose sole purpose is to increase consumer footfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been researching what the use of prohibitive semiotics tells us about what we regard as public spaces;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingmustbebeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}