How to make our cities open and democratic | Bradley Garrett | TEDxSouthamptonUniversity

In this compelling talk, Bradley Garrett asks us to join a revolution that will claim and protect open spaces in cities. Drawing on a long tradition of trespass, Bradley argues that defending public spaces is necessary given what appears to be the continual privatisation of our cities.

Dr Bradley L. Garrett is a social geographer at the University of Southampton with an interest in unmapped, unseen and lost places. His first book, Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City, is an ethnographic account of his adventures trespassing into ruins, tunnels and skyscrapers in eight different countries with urban explorers from around the world. His second book, Subterranean London: Cracking the Capital, is a collaborative photo book that dissects the world underneath London’s streets.

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