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Sidewalk Government, Michael C. Pollack
Sidewalk Government, Michael C. Pollack
Michigan Law Review
This Article is about one of the most used, least studied spaces in the country: the sidewalk.
It is easy to think of sidewalks simply as spaces for pedestrians, and that is exactly how most scholars, policymakers, and laws treat them. But this view is fundamentally mistaken. In big cities and small towns, sidewalks are also where we gather, demonstrate, dine, exercise, rest, and shop. They are host to commerce and infrastructure. They are spaces of public access and sources of private obligation. And in all of these things, sidewalks are sites of underappreciated conflict. The centrality of sidewalks in …