Editing Public space (section)

===Controversy regarding restrictions on use===
[[Image:LammasLand-485.JPG|thumb|right|180px|[[Leyton Marshes]], [[London]], an example of land with long established rights of access, and equally long-standing restrictions]]
Public space is commonly shared and created for open usage throughout the community, whereas private space is owned by individuals or corporations. The area is built for a range of various types of recreation and entertainment. Limitations are imposed in the space to prevent certain actions from occurring—public behavior that is considered obnoxious or out of character (i.e., drug and alcohol consumption, urinating, [[indecent exposure]], etc.)--and are supported by law or [[Local ordinance|ordinance]]. Through the landscape and spatial organization of public space, the social construction is considered to be privately ruled by the implicit and explicit rules and expectations of the space that are enforced.

Whilst it is generally considered that everyone has a right to access and use public space, as opposed to private space which may have restrictions, there has been some academic interest in how public spaces are managed to exclude certain groups - specifically homeless<ref name="homeless">{{cite web
|url=http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/crimreport2004/introduction.html
|publisher=National Coalition for the Homeless
|title=Illegal to be Homeless
|year=2004
}}</ref> people and young<ref name="youth">
{{cite journal
 | last = Malone
 | first = K
 | title = Children, Youth and Sustainable Cities
 | journal = Local Environment
 | volume = 6
 | issue = 1
 | url = http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/APCITY/UNPAN012799.pdf
 }}</ref> people.

Measures are taken to make the public space less attractive to them, including the removal or design of benches to restrict their use for sleeping and resting, restricting access to certain times, locking indoor/enclosed areas. Police forces are sometimes involved in moving 'unwanted' members of the public from public spaces. In fact, by not being provided suitable access, disabled people are implicitly excluded from some spaces.