General place. How to regain your squares to the townspeople

Repair on Pushkinskaya will deprive Moscow of one of the latest public spaces. Can this be fixed?

Pushkinskaya Square. Photo: Maxim Shemetov / Reuters

On March 26, there were so many participants in the action “He is not Dimon”, and the police so carefully opposed their movement that the action, declared as a walk, turned into a rally at the monument to Pushkin. The police acted hard - more than a thousand detainees, dozens of bodily harm. But the city administration seemed few, and the next day she announced that Pushkinskaya Square was closing to repair the monument to Pushkin.

Of course, this is not due to the fact that the monument to Pushkin suffered from the actions of the participants in the action. The reason here is what role space plays in the city and its central places. What logic is behind the actions of the authorities, what central places remained in Moscow and how to regain public space to the townspeople?

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