As the world's urban centers boom, cities are becoming spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate differences such as language, ethnicity, race and wealth. The fate of a truly public space depends on how these and other challenges are addressed, such as exponential growth and increasing social and cultural complexity, as well as other questions: Who has the right to the city? Who determines the exclusion and expulsion of the “public” and what effects does this have on our fundamental ideals? (Blomley, 2000)At least since the Greek agora, public spaces have had a positive connotation that evokes the ideals of equality, diversity and progress in their very foundations. It is worrying to wonder whether public spaces could no longer function as democratic sites if a diversity of people and activities were accepted and tolerated. On the contrary, they become centers of commerce and consumption, or places of political surveillance. For as we move away from the days when public spaces were the primary cultural and political site, and the much more important sites of cultural formation and popular political practice (by those who counted as citizens), we enter into a era of sprawl and proliferation. sites in the virtual realm, it certainly seems unreasonable to expect public spaces to fulfill their traditional roles as sites of civic engagement and political consciousness. Today's public spaces are more likely to be interpreted by the degree of consumption they stimulate than by their role in shaping civic and political culture. However, articulating the connection between public space, civic culture, and democratic politics as a dying relationship simply will not do. Given the relevance of interpersonal contact to reconcile the contrast, associated with a discussion about...... middle of paper.... ..fe. Creating space is about shaping a place for public life which, in turn, generates a space for inclusion. It can spark civil discourse: even spark anger and dissatisfaction with things as they are. This requires a level of public trust that only comes from sharing the same space. The public space, in fact, only takes on its full meaning with the differentiation between a nominally representative State on the one hand and a civil society on the other. Thus, if we are to take the First Amendment's guarantee of the right of unimpeded assembly seriously, we must theoretically make adequate allowances for this practice. It’s obvious the founders understood this when they designed the Washington Mall to assemble so close to the nation’s point of political power. It is not simply a matter of allowing public space and therefore public participation, but of actively seeking it.