Is There a Public Space in the American Landscape?

I see this in many different, you know, aspects of my own home town, people yearning for a vibrant public life. And again, i you saw this in covet. People were fed up with being isolated. I remember last year going to the beach in the middle of the hygienae, the canpandemic, and people were so craved to be around one another. In the american landscape, the shoppig wall is the public space by by d default. That's where people go and convene. But it's not even a public space for it's private. If it's actually privately owned, and if you try and speak your mind politically