Public space is often defined as any site where people interact and mingle, outside of the realm of the private. It is a space for meeting and dialogue (Arendt 1958). Yet public space cannot be explained solely through a sociology; it is the spatium (etymologically linked to both space and time) that somehow allows for this meeting. Historically, in the European city, the central square offered space (and time) to meet. It is a space at the heart of the constructed environment, where the winds, metaphorically, have free reign; where everything can grow; where ideas, habits and behaviour choose to meet (and are not ordered to do so). This is of great importance; public space is where all are not so much ‘united’, but where they can ‘gather’. Or as Marx (1973) put it, public space is where there is Vereinigung and not so much Verein, with which he emphasized that the community (an important word for him as we know) that hereby assembles, does not come to be because of formal institutions like a state or its representing rulers; a community gathers because they wish to, because the space invites them to gather and because the time is right. In sum: because they feel it is good to gather.