Foreword: Stephen Eric Bronner 1. Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Democracy; Douglas Kellner 2. Reflections on the Meaning and Experience of Public Space: A Critical Psychoanalytic Perspective; Michael Diamond 3. The Public Sphere as Site of Emancipation and Enlightenment: A Discourse Theoretic Critique of Digital Communication; David Ingram & Asaf Bar-Tura 4. Walter Benjamin and the Modern Parisian Cityscape; Mary Caputi 5. Critical Spaces: Pubilc Spaces, the Culture Industry, Critical Theory, and Urbanism; Malcolm Miles 6. Idealizing Public Space: Arendt, Wolin, and the Frankfurt School; C. Fred Alford 7. Spatial Form and the Pathologies of Public Reason: Toward a Critical Theory of Space; Michael J. Thompson 8. Adorno and the Global Public Sphere: Rethinking Globalization and the Cosmopolitan Condition of Politics; Lars Rensmann 9. The Carnivalization of the Public Sphere; Lauren Langman 10. #OccupytheEstablishment: The Commodification of a "New Sustainability" for Public Space and Public Life; Diana Boros & Haley Smith