ABSTRACT
This chapter provides initial, exploratory evidence that this might lead to the development of secessionist' attitudes to public spaces and mobility. It reviews that spaces of public transport should be considered as fully-fledged public spaces, despite having rarely been studied as such. The chapter shows that many of the reasons for which people like or dislike public transport are related to the fact that it entails sharing space with strangers, interacting with them and thus encountering diversity. In doing so, it draws on evidence from a variety of sources at the intersection of urban, sociological and transport research. The chapter suggests that those European cities that have managed to preserve high levels of public transport use should be considered as a favourable context for the endurance of urban public space. It illustrates why urban scholarship has generally overlooked the public spaces of public transport and what might be the implications of a change of course in this respect.
