“When William H. Whyte presented his research on the use of public space in the film ‘The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces,' he observed that people’s primary activity in public plazas was ‘looking at other people.’ What and where is considered ‘public’ has expanded beyond physical space into limitless vistas of digital plazas, but Whyte’s observation persists. In the age of digital communication, GPS navigation, and surveillance technology, our relationship to space is multiple, fractured, and layered. Each layer is its own world and, somehow, we’re in all of them.”
— Olivia Fredricks
