Thomas Friedman on Michael Sandel. New York Times Sunday Review.
Quasi-public spaces (old post).
Here I quoted Arundhati Roy on the “most successful secessionist struggle in India”. She was referring to the ominous retreat of the Indian middle and upper classes to gated residential communities.
Facebook is a gated community, though not for the rich. I prefer the public squares of the web.
May 22 2012 at 5:45 pm
Sandel on Andrew Marr’s Start the Week, BBC Radio 4:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hw6g1
With Diane Coyle and Grigory Yavlinsky. Skyboxification is too small a word for the sinister thing he is describing.
June 7 2012 at 9:23 pm
And discussion of quasi-public spaces in the following week’s edition of the same programme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01j5fw0
With Jonathan Meades, Anna Minton, Robert Macfarlance and Thomas Heatherwick.