ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book develops an ethnographic understanding of a particular set of public spaces on London's South Bank. It explains an empirical contribution to an emerging ethnographic literature on the production and life of urban public space. The book discusses of buskers and street performers on South Bank and in particular describes the relatively laissez-faire regulation they are subject to there. If the Festival Wing plans are approved, then almost the entire stretch of the Queen's Walk between Waterloo Bridge and Hungerford Bridge on the South Bank would be characterised by active frontages' on the landward side. The book explores the CCTV scheme which was effectively to, erm, kind of plug some gaps, make sure that people knew that monitoring the public realm was as important as monitoring the perimeters of their buildings.