ABSTRACT
Asking where democracy takes place, this article answers that it is practised in the space of the street and between people. It is not a pre-existing quality that may be given or claimed, but it must exist in forms of mutual conduct and mutual regard in the spaces in which life is lived. Democracy also inheres in the relations between people and place, which is addressed here not as landscape, but landship. The article also contains a set of recommendations for the democratic design of public space.
