1. Of particular relevance here is the recently launched initiative Theatrum Mundi led by Saskia Sassen and Richard Sennet that, among other themes, focuses on the streets of major global cities as platforms for new socio-political assemblages. For a summary in relation to the Arab Spring and new social movements see Saskia Sassen, ‘The Global Street’ Huffington Post Blog, 10 March 2011, available at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
/saskia-sassen/the-global-street_b_989880.html.
2. Christopher Clarey, ‘London’s Games, an Island Between Beijing and Rio’, The New York Times, 7 May 2012.