How city squares can be public places of protest or centres of state control
- Written by: Majdi Faleh, Teaching Assistant, University of Melbourne
Seven years after Tahrir Square became the focal point of the Egyptian Revolution, towering metal gates now control access.Ahmed Abd El-Fatah/Wikimedia, CC BY
Today’s urban public spaces tend to represent governments and cities rather than people and citizens. In the past seven years, disturbing scenes of protests in city squares have been...
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