Communal spaces are essential to a city's resilience. But they are under attack from our consumer and surveillance society

By 2017-01-23T08:00:00

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Mark Pimlott’s latest book on the concept of the public interior is fascinating – and practice-altering, finds Nicholas de Klerk

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