ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the investigation of assault by architecture by taking an excursus into sociology's long-standing agoraphobia and discusses some arguments that attempt to counter it. It provides a various attempts to "control" the public realm — that the people who actually design and build cities appear, in contrast to the sociologists who study these people, to suffer from no agoraphobic qualms. The chapter explores considerable detail these alternative strategies of control. It explores some thoughts about the contributions of the built environment itself to ever more antiurbanism, to ever stronger feelings of fear and loathing toward the public realm, and to ever greater degrees of privatism. The fruits of much learning over the centuries about the efficacy of control by design; the fruits of much learning about the pathos of regulatory solutions versus the power of architectural ones. certainly other meanings of the noun, almost all of those meanings carry the "rest and recreation" connotation.
