Keerthi Potluri is a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow at the Central Park Conservancy’s Institute for Urban Parks. She holds a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. Follow her @_keerthi_.
Keerthi Potluri
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Urban Park Poetics: Summer in Marcus Garvey Park
For city dwellers, summer is park season. Warm weather draws people out of their homes, onto the streets, and, if they’re lucky, into a nearby park to enjoy recreation of all kinds (eating, napping, fishing, swimming, texting, Pokémon catching, furtive sex, sunbathing, people watching). We imagine public parks as democratic spaces par excellence, offering “relief […]
