Urban Space and Freedom

Abstract

Freedom is, to a large extent, the product of spatial planning, the planning of density in particular. The high density that characterizes most urban centers enhances freedom inasmuch as it results in a wider range of choices of occupations and social roles, but it also, frequently, lessens freedom by reducing privacy and security. This article examines these and other tensions and contradictions between spatial organi zation and the freedom of the individual.