Postscript: Beyond the Street

Abstract

The concept of the street or public space is shifting and elusive. It lacks a clear and permanent identity and instead reflects a Deleuzian ‘becoming’. Art historian Patricia Phillips writes:

Public space has not disappeared, but it often appears in new guises….There remains a physical and territorial dimension to public space, but there is a growing recognition of its more quixotic, intangible characteristics. Public space has become cellular and molecular, dynamic and granular… immaterial and invisible. (2003: 129)