ABSTRACT
This chapter recapitulates contributions to “Public Space Unbound” by revisiting links between space, politics and concrete emancipatory praxis. We argue that a productive framework for discussing emancipation in urban theory needs to extend beyond established conceptualizations of public space as the epitome of emancipatory struggles. Radical notions of emancipation understood as any concerted attempt at democratization under post-political conditions are translated into spatial terms, to make them more accessible to planning and design disciplines. Public space is unbound from its prevailing modernist and capitalist conceptualizations in favour of an understanding of spatial emancipatory praxis situated in lived space.
