{"id":1605,"date":"2016-02-09T15:28:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T20:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2016-02-09T15:28:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T20:28:39","slug":"privatization-of-public-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/privatization-of-public-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Privatization of public spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing some of the examples of social art from this week&#8217;s module, particularly the sculptures in the first half, I noticed how\u00a0many of them (like Calder&#8217;s flamingo in Chicago) were on privately-owned public spaces. I also ran across an article this summer on how\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2015\/aug\/04\/pops-privately-owned-public-space-cities-direct-action\">publicly owned spaces in major cities are being sold to private companies<\/a>. Does this change the type of public art that people can make?\u00a0Does private ownership mean that spaces are more closely policed than they might be under public ownership?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing some of the examples of social art from this week&#8217;s module, particularly the sculptures in the first half, I noticed how\u00a0many of them (like Calder&#8217;s flamingo in Chicago) were on privately-owned public spaces. I also ran across an article this summer on how\u00a0publicly owned spaces in major cities are being sold to private companies. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/privatization-of-public-spaces\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Privatization of public spaces&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":938,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[414,415,412,410,411,413],"coauthors":[372],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-art-and-spatial-politics","tag-geography","tag-neoliberalism","tag-ownership","tag-privatization","tag-public-spaces","tag-spacial-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}