7 Spaces

7.1 Political space

All politics, like all action, happens somewhere. But where, and in what kind of space? […]

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7.2 Foundations

The street is irreducibly public. It is a space for action, for doing politics and all sorts of other things like trading, playing, meeting, talking, sitting, watching. And for that reason it is a site of government, too […]

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7.3 A place to gather

It was in the coffee-houses of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century London and other cities, Habermas famously observed, that ‘the sphere of private people [came] together as a public’ […]

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7.4 Doorstep and high street

Landscape photographer Simon Roberts toured the UK in 2010 at the time of the general election, setting his large-format camera on the top of his motorhome at the various stops he made. He looks (and we look) from a position unusually high up […]

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7.5 Parliaments

‘Acts must take place in settings’, as Edelman observes. And many political actions – meetings, speeches, ceremonies – take place in monumental settings: large, imposing, often superhuman or inhuman in scale. They afford a sense of solidity and durability. They compensate […]

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7.6 UN HQ NY

UN headquarters occupy two principal buildings between First Avenue and the East River in New York, housing the General Assembly and the Secretariat respectively, as well as an additional conference building and a library […]

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7.7 Situation room

Any meeting separates its participants from the environment from which they are drawn. It constitutes a space apart […]

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7.8 In and out of place

In Renaissance Venice, officials kept a record – the Libro Ceremoniale – of exactly how each visiting dignitary was received so that each future visitor might be received appropriately, with more or less or exactly the same degree of elaboration, just as was due to them […]

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