Thinking the Public Space in globalization: four reflections

Abstract

The author argues that the state has entered a growing crisis and suspicion about its real "utility" for society, and links to this proposal the emergence of the issue of public space. He argues that a radical change occurs after the new perception of the territory, when there no longer seems possible that the state, and therefore the public space, can be thought exclusively in national terms. Then he discusses the relationship between public space-private life, and the new ways of doing politics in this new public space. He states finally that the building of public space stands on the conviction of the existence of a common good, which can be thought of and designed collectively.