The increasing significance of temporary urban initiatives—like community gardens, markets, festivals and artistic ventures—raises questions about their role in the public life and “publicness” of cities. In dialogue with normative and alternative literature on public space, we examine how temporary urbanism is implicated in the production of publicness. Through examining the Auckland Night Markets in New Zealand, we discuss how these events produce publicness through (a) the people that attend them and their experiences, (b) control practices and (c) their spatial configuration. Our discussion lends support to emerging accounts of public space and publicness as pluralistic and dynamic.

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临时公众：奥克兰夜市的临时公众

临时性城市举措的重要性日益增加——如社区花园、市场、节日和艺术冒险——引发了关于它们在公共生活和城市“公共性”中的作用的问题。在与关于公共空间的规范性和替代性文献的对话中，我们研究了临时城市主义如何与公共性的生产有关。通过考察新西兰的奥克兰夜市，我们讨论了这些活动如何通过 (a) 参加者和他们的经历、(b) 控制实践和 (c) 他们的空间配置来产生公共性。我们的讨论支持新兴的关于公共空间和公共性的多元化和动态的描述。