public realm

collocation in English

meaningsofpublicandrealm

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public
adjective
uk
/ˈpʌb.lɪk/
us
/ˈpʌb.lɪk/
relating to or involving people in general, rather than being limited to a particular group ...
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realm
noun[C]
uk
/relm/
us
/relm/
an area of interest ...
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(Definition ofpublicandrealmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpublic realm

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In thepublicrealm, the unobtrusiveness of his selfconfidence could give his speech an authority of its own.
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The contemporary approach to city design often neglects or erodes thepublicrealmin favour of private zones of exclusion.
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In social policy terms, the rise of 'welfarism' in western capitalism saw the boundary redrawn towards an expanded (and more interventionist)publicrealm.
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They also provide a unique and highly convivial extension of thepublicrealmaccording to the weather conditions.
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However, buildings exist in thepublicrealmwhere they are continually reinhabited and reinterpreted.
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A greater affliction is ' the apathy that derives from the lack of commitment to the civicpublicrealm' (p. 96).
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Why did he continue to be scrupulous in thepublicrealmof print, whatever his privately held emotions?
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Governance is largely about rules and institutions that regulate thepublicrealmin civil society.
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This paper explores ways by which observational drawing can challenge assumptions about, and improve understanding of, the builtpublicrealm.
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In thepublicrealm, however, dependency has been made to appear shameful.
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These are women who are both veiled and very self-assured in thepublicrealm.
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I will use this project to discuss their interpretation of the street, of thepublicrealmand of the relation between urban research and design.
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, thepublicrealmlooks rather less robust.
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Is it the wife here who left this man isolated from thepublicrealmthat was offered to him by the marital-political contract of 1919?
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Private acts in novels serve as allegories for what happens in thepublicrealm.
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The contested fortunes of thepublicrealmare testimony to the limitations of neo-liberalism's plan to rule the world.
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Because some in society believe these norms about women's proper place in thepublicrealm, the political behaviour of all women is affected.
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If scepticism regarding 'thepublicrealm' has any validity, it must then concern the nature of this public life.
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These processes of dissolution also included attempts to de-politicise thepublicrealm.
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Once again, chapbooks formed the most important means by which this discourse entered thepublicrealm.
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