Public space is important to teens. Perhaps because, unlike grown ups, they usually have no private space to call their own. Yet groups of teens hanging out in public places often raise the suspicions, and sometimes the ire, of adults.
As Toronto’s Hadley Dyer points out in her introduction to this timely and engaging primer, teens are actually doing something, even as they appear to be doing nothing: they’re learning social engagement without adult interference and figuring out how they fit into their wider community. Read more…