ABSTRACT
Public space is intertwined with the democratic structure of society in a complex dialectic. First, democratic relations produce public space, and I have shown throughout this research that the democratic relations (and therefore the spaces we inhabit as citizens) are radically different depending on the prevailing power structures and models of democracy. Second, public space produces democratic relations as public space is where citizenship is acted out, either in the liberal representative sense, as a set of rights, or in a participatory sense as an active citizen; but these are very different, and the latter offers a multitude of possibilities for the politicisation of space and the spatialisation of politics.
