Similarly, by combining socio spatial and political perspectives, questions about the usefulness of and demand for public space could be expanded to include questions about whether its use constitutes genuine democratic participation or expression. Finally, where the legal–economic and political perspectives meet, design plans and processes that consider a public space’s potential users (i.e. ‘the public’) could be extended to also consider users’ legal (e.g. citizen versusalien) and normative (e.g. property owner versus homeless) standing in the community