Whose space?
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
Mike Davis’s City of Quartz is dense with details about who owns and controls the City of Los Angeles - from 19th century Boosters to 20th century gated communities, and ’space police’. It’s relentless. But it does make you think about who owns and controls one’s own cityscape. And it made me think about the local fight for public space in my own neighbourhood of Coogee Beach- where millionaire Hoteliers seek to control and own much of the public space.