We just need a public debate about the value
of the public realm in the justice system.
I tweeted about it and it went a bit viral, and I learned that (a) there is a city walking policy that says that when new work is being done, an «inter-divisional and inter-agency Walking Strategy Team chaired by the Director
of the Public Realm Section [must] ensure city - wide coordination of Strategy projects.»
As a result, we carelessly hand over vast chunks
of our public realm to the parasitic automobile; space that could be put to much better use.
Where we live, churches that are no longer needed for religious purposes are turned into condos and pass out
of the public realm.
Our favourite religious conversion is this one in Maastricht; Where we live, churches that are no longer needed for religious purposes are turned into condos and pass out
of the public realm.
Presented in Venice by Lisson Gallery on the occasion of the 14th International Architecture Biennale and produced with Berengo Studio is Genius Loci, an exhibition of sculpture and installation that goes beyond the museum or gallery space, addressing instead the complex spheres
of the public realm and the built environment.
The group explores the concepts
of public realm and communities, experimenting with new models of participation, self - management, creative uses of new technologies and cross-disciplinary methodology.
The artist will examine how the architecture and streets of Dublin can act as a site of investigation to reveal diverse meanings
of the public realm.
Using the impersonal language
of the public realm, ranging from the quasi-mysticism of corporate mission statements to the maxims of revolutionary socialism, his work exhorts us to believe in it.
As part of ACA Public, a new publishing initiative exploring the multifaceted nature
of the public realm, Askeaton Contemporary Arts have reissued Carson's original artist book of documents and letters, alongside an interview with him and new recollections revealed by Bernie McAnaney, Carson's guardian on that day.
The artist has held a longstanding interest in the impersonal language
of the public realm, ranging from the prom - ises of enlightenment in self - improvement type jargon to the quasi-mysticism of corporate mission statements.
For Tuesday Evenings at the Modern, Andria Hickey expands upon her recent curatorial work to explore the shifting nature of the art object from the sanctioned art spaces of galleries and museums to the unyielding context
of the public realm.
Their projects challenge spatial limitations by transforming various fields
of the public realm into surreal environments.
«It is essential that we err, if at all, on the side that will not choke off the transactions upon which a significant pillar of this proposal is based and if the City can not come up with a re-evaluation that inspires more confidence it may have to search for another mechanism to address the transparency and predictability concerns
of the Public Realm Improvement Fund,» Brewer wrote.
Participatory budgeting is a growing movement that is changing the way New Yorkers engage with their government: improving transparency, increasing voters» say in how their money is spent and bringing neighbors together to be stewards
of the public realm.»
«Political responses to the problems of religiously - motivated violence and extremism, at home and overseas, must... recognise that solutions will not be found simply in further secularisation
of the public realm.
«Improving the condition
of our public realm, including footways, drainage and lighting as well as carriageways allow people to use them more, whether they are using a vehicle or not.»
For Marquand, the 19th century was the great age
of the public realm when Gladstone's reforms to the civil service enshrined an ethos of professionalism and public service and a civic pride and energy was unleashed across the country, as captured in the great civic architecture of northern cities.
The attrition
of the public realm; the remorseless growth of inequality; the social pathologies associated with its growth; the humiliations suffered by those at the bottom of the economic pile; the callous indifference of those at the top; the penetration of state institutions by corporate interests; the decline of public trust; and, not least, the hubristic irresponsibility of a sometimes criminal financial sector — all the stigmata of pre-crisis Britain — loom as large as they did before 2008.
Terminator technologies for synthetic biology, GM crops for agrofuels, geoengineering and all of the other false solutions to the energy, climate and food crises enclose vast genetic resources and agrobiodiversity, taking them out
of the public realm and into the control of TNCs, especially the US Big Biotech giants Monsanto, Dupont and Arborgen.
It is the self - limitation
of the public realm that makes room for the private.
The dechristianization
of the public realm proceeds apace, and communal traditions have weakened.
The established religion that he critiques, however, «occupies public space [but] is essentially a parasitic destroyer
of the public realm.
In addition, he also means to contribute to the ongoing debate in America about the renewal
of the public realm.
For the tradition to which Plato had been heir, paideia was as essential to the well - being
of the public realm as of the political realm, by forming virtuous citizens capable of filling political roles wisely; for fourth - century Greek - speaking Christians paideia, while it aimed to shape persons» private interiority rather than their public political activity, contributed to the well - being
of the public realm as a cultural realm accessible to any literate, educated person, Christian or pagan.
While it may seem unfair that trades exists outside
of the public realm during trading hours, trades executed in dark pools are incorporated into a post-trade transparency which means investors do have access to them.
Not exact matches
The system, dubbed «Quorum,» is designed to toe the line between private and
public in the
realm of shuffling derivatives and payments.
«It's salad days for KKR, Blackstone, Apollo,» says Jonathan Grabel, chief investment officer at
Public Employees Retirement Association
of New Mexico, referring to the trio
of titans in the PE
realm.
Yet, while both are at the height
of hype in the tech world, much
of the general
public still has trouble believing either has progressed beyond the
realm of science - fiction.
A few musicians are stepping into the
realm of blockchain technology as a means
of offering the
public access to venues and albums.
Is there such a thing as a purely «
public» solution to the question
of homosexuality that leaves the «private»
realm untouched?
As most people operate with broad, ugly ditches between faith and reason, nature and grace, and the
realms of the
public and private, that fact is often missed.
The
public world is better served if individuals have times
of preparation for the
public and a
realm of privacy protected from the sight
of other people.
Public life was now considered the
realm of reason alone, which had no place for a seemingly unknowable God.
Some argue that the time has come to push religious believers out
of the
public square and confine them to the quiet, private
realm of personal prayer and worship.
In this way Christian paideia, like paideia in Plato's day, bore on the
public realm, but in a quite different sense
of «
public.»
But because its governing interest is «religious,» theological schooling on the model
of paideia has characteristically been disengaged from the
public realm in the sense
of the
realm of political, social, and economic power, its arrangement and its management.
Because both people in society and people in our churches live in the
public realm, and because existence in the
public realm validates authority and relevance, the absence
of church presence in the
public realm of the media diminishes people's perception
of the relevance
of faith to their everyday existence - ie.
The ethical and emotional crises that we experience today in relation to the thresholds
of birth and death, the uncertainty as to where «personal» value may be located and anchored, and the resultant confusion in the
realm of public policy and law are symptoms
of the fundamental intellectual crisis
of modern humanity.
Think
of the low - rise, high - density character
of neighborhoods in Paris, London or Charleston, or any pre-1945 American town or city neighborhood, which are characterized above all by a beautiful, walkable, convenient
public realm that more than compensates for their small building parcels.
In these and many other ways, the case is advanced that Christianity is a
public proposal within the
realm of authentically
public discourse, and requiring decisions
of immeasurable consequences, both personal and cultural.
For example, referring to the «institutional field
of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain
of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the
public realm in a variety
of contradictory ways.»
In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form
of governance: coalitions (composed
of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many
of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care
of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties
of yore (providing the point
of access for new groups and a
public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters
of the common good).
Currently the pressure to privatize has become ideological, and I oppose the libertarian ideology that supports the expansion
of private ownership into what should be
public realms.
«Those who believed in Christ possessed at every period a twofold being: as individuals in the
realm of the person and as participants in the
public life
of their nations.»
If no such evidence is forthcoming, then one may fairly conclude that the real backing for the warrant must be found elsewhere than in a
public realm of discourse — for example, in the personal belief
of the theologian.
If we have something to say about the timeless enemies
of the human condition — injustice, ignorance, bigotry, exploitation, hunger, war — we will fail if we try to sound like every other voice in the
public realm instead
of using our language and tradition.
This reality helps us understand Henry's exasperated incredulity at the spectacle
of the nation becoming richer and richer while its
public realm became poorer and poorer — his deep - seated anger at the inconceivably extensive degradation
of aesthetic experience in postwar America.
Another excellent study is Ferre, Frederick, Shaping the Future: Resources for the Post-Modern World (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1976), especially with its
public policy proposals in the
realms of religion, politics, economics, and education based on the relational vision.
Secularism wants religious practice, especially Christian practice, banished to a private world
of feelings and attitudes, while at the same time the
realm of the
public is to be expanded to include every aspect
of one's life.