The Public Space Research Group (PSRG) was founded in 1995 by Professor Setha Low and doctoral students at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). The objective was to create a center for ethnographic research, theory, and policy that focuses on the relationship of public space to people and communities within the context of legal, political and economic forces. The PSRG offers an integrated framework for examining the social processes that transform spaces into places, the conflicts that emerge over access and control of space, and the values and meanings people attach to places. We address local cultural and spatial resource problems and their evaluation, remediation, and revitalization through social policy, urban planning, management strategies and environmentally-sensitive design. The PSRG has rapidly grown in size and scope as faculty, graduate students and community associates research city parks, urban national parks, plazas, beaches, market areas, tourist areas, gated communities, co-operative housing, and historic preservation sites.

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Setha Low
Director
slow@gc.cuny.edu
Professor of Environmental Psychology, Anthropology and Women's Studies
CUNY Graduate Center

Babette Audant
Research Assistant
baudant@gc.cuny.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center

Gregory Donovan
Research Assistant
gdonovan@gc.cuny.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center

Jen Gieseking
Research Assistant
jgieseking@gc.cuny.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center

Rodolfo Hernandez
Research Assistant
rcorchado@gc.cuny.edu
Ph.D. Candidate
CUNY Graduate Center

Bree Kessler
Research Assistant
bkessler@gc.cuny.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center

Bikki Tran
Research Assistant
btran@gc.cuny.edu
Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center

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Exploring Condominium Governance in Toronto and New York City
With Prof. Randy Lippert, University of Windsor, Canada; sponsor: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

“Working Group on Public Space and Diversity”
With Darshan Vigneswaran (Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute); sponsor: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

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Public Space Research Group
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309

Phone: 212.817.1905
Fax: 212.817.1564
E-mail: psrg@gc.cuny.edu

The City University of New York
| The Graduate Center | Envionmental Psychology Doctoral Program |

The Center for Human Environments
| The Children's Environments Research Group | The Health and Society Research Group | The Housing Environments Research Group |
| The Public Space Research Group | The Youth Studies Research Group | ActKnowledge Inc. | The New York City Nonprofits Project |