Memorials installed within public pavements are a recent, distinctive genre
in terms of their forms, subjects, audiences and custodianship. Through international
examples, this paper examines their varied materials and designs, and their differing
placement in relation to the pavement surface, the location of the events commemorated
and the wider cityscape. It analyzes the particular visual and tactile encounters they frame
for the passing public. These commemorative installations sit in tension with the complex
ownership, regulation, use and maintenance of the public right-of-way. They also engage
with specific physical and representational opportunities that the public pavement presents
for commemoration.
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