Events in the City: Using public spaces as event venues (Routledge Advances in Event Research Series)

London becomes stuffed with public events. Creeping authoritarianism oversees the destruction of our parks and other public spaces.Public spaces are strictly governed by the self interests of sponsored events, private developers and local authorities eager to modernise social activities.It all sounds very jolly until you look at the debris , read about the damaged parks, wildlife disrupted, flowerbeds and traffic restrictions.The exclusion of various untargeted groups in society.Not to mention the creeping surveillance and arbitrary rules encroaching on individual freedom.