A private property transformed into a public space can incubate revolution.
Evidence
Much early revolutionary activity was funded from Philippe’s deep pockets. It constellated around the Palais-Royal, which the duke turned into a sort of demagogue’s shopping center—Paris’s most volatile public space, crammed with cafés and bookshops, a gathering place for the disaffected. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 109
Categorization
- SEED: SEED
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 109
- XREF: connects to: Patron relationships win permission to use public settings for unintended private purposes.; Residents’ private claiming of public spaces both reinforces and subverts urban spatial order; The new enclosures privatize access to identity, as the old ones privatized land (+1 more)