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- Interviews
"In Afghanistan, streets are spaces for men and only for men"
- Mònica Bernabé
Shared Spaces interviews Mònica Bernabé, the only permanently-based Spanish journalist in the Islamic Republic.
- Interviews
"Cities are centres of calculation where information is turned into knowledge"
- Peter Burke
Interview with Peter Burke, a well-known authority on social history of knowledge
- Interviews
"Life in Manhattan is tough and grinding; It’s easier to survive in Brooklyn"
- Paul Auster
The famous writer, film director and scriptwriter talks about his relationship with the city of New York and, most especially, with the borough of Brooklyn.

- Interviews
"Occupy opened up the possibility of imagining how a true democracy might work"
- Nicholas Mirzoeff
Shared Spaces interviews Nicholas Mirzoeff, a leading contemporary theorist in the field of visual culture and active participant in the social movements that first appeared in 2011.
- Interviews
"Good public space is one that embodies both durability and flexibility"
- Sarah Mineko Ichioka
The former director of The Architecture Foundation (AF) and member of the jury of the Prize discusses the values of public space and the dangers it faces.
- Interviews
"It’s when you believe that the streets of your city belong to you that you come out to defend them"
- Lydia Cacho
The Mexican activist, renowned for her struggle to defend human rights and to combat abuses against children and women, speaks about peaceful appropriation of the streets in a situation of extreme violence.