Books by Nicholas Blomley

The dominant account of public space fails to engage with a remarkably pervasive yet overlooked logic that shapes the ways in which public space is regulated, conceived of, and argued about. Documenting the pervasiveness of pedestrianism, this title addresses its relationship to bureaucratic practice, legal interpretation and political debate.

"Unsettling the City" is an expansive analysis of how "property" plays a key role in what the author terms "the enclosure of the global commons," and what can be done to resist this process of enclosure.