public space
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpublicandspace
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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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space
noun
uk/speɪs/us/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
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(Definition ofpublicandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpublic space
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The proposals include the realignment of the cemetery with the geometry of the church, and the creation of a newpublicspaceoutside the convent.
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These ideas express notions of thepublicspacein the sense of the ways in which leaders and other political actors should behave.
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Airing of different viewpoints also occurs when such talk is conducted in apublicspacebecause of the presence of a larger audience.
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The current crisis involves a continuous struggle over the drawing of boundaries, because the boundaries of thepublicspaceare constantly negotiated.
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Restrictions on daily living were reinforced by deterioratingpublicspace, a product of abandoned buildings, degraded infrastructure, and the loss of local businesses.
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The houses in the scheme were therefore not designed as specific objects, but rather as the definers ofpublicspace.
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Female professions had to be denied in order to secure the division of female domestic space and malepublicspace.
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It took over thepublicspaceas it sought to mold society and its citizens.
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Lawyers and courts provided additionalpublicspacein which abduction spectacles could be produced.
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Her idea was to build a garden shed in this very urban and verypublicspace.
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Elsewhere, polarisation is much more obvious among the elite and in thepublicspace.
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Seen under this prism, the terrain vague can be thought of as an alternativepublicspace.
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Two spatial units have been singled out to clarify these differences - the private\\domestic space and thepublicspace.
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Although women's struggle forpublicspaceis a basic cause of this change, it is not a historical explanation.
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This use ofpublicspaceto mediate between the two groups of residents - new and old - is interesting.
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Any investment inpublicspaceas a consequence of the new development had to be funded by the developers themselves.
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Thispublicspacedefines first a way to behave and second a bounded space within which politics should be practised.
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The street, however, is the mostpublicspace.
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