As you’ve suggested, city inhabitants are being lead to a future of commercialisation – the only way that they interface with a city – which squeezes out the purpose of a community: social relations, theatre, play, and debate.

It’s a dialog that performance company Blind Ditch are opening, by facilitating games of ping pong in the public squares of many British cities (http://www.blindditch.org/globalplayer/), as an attempt to shift the focus of public life back to public life