The author’s proposal is to consider the public/private as a materialization of the shared/reserved (or social/intimate), instead of taking it as a coincidence of the political/economical. In this sense, the author con-siders the city as a concrete result of what is public, an expression of social order, a will to live together and not an opportunity for an open space to any passer-by(as it may happen in the countryside or in the mountains). In order to achieve his objective, Monnet wonders about the relationship between public space and com-merce (concrete expression of “urbanity”) and he ana-lyses the common aspects which the role of commerce plays within the public space in three cases of “Western” cities: Toulouse, Mexico city and Los Angeles
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