Contests over public space access are struggles over power.

Evidence

Despite the crudity of this definition, it will serve for the time being. Just as we shall be concerned later with the dynamics of transforming strangers into personally-known others, so we shall also be concerned with the dynamics of the shifting definitions of public and private space, with the dynamics of claims to access and counterclaims to restriction, with the dynamics of power and powerlessness in struggles over territory. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 121

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Public green space doubles as political space threatened by privatization. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1136; Wealthy opponents of parks derided prospective visitors as city rabble — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 813