Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index.
Permitting protest in Washington, DC -- Property, law, and the plaza of Santa Fe, New Mexico: turning social relations into space -- Privately public: property redevelopment, public space, and homelessness in San Diego -- Publicly private: regulating space and creating community in Syracuse's Carousel Center -- Publicizing public property? the struggle for the public in New York's community gardens -- Placing the public: discourses of publicity and practices of property -- Power, politics, and regimes of publicity -- Postscript: interventions -- Methodological appendix