Why do public parks close

All parks in Bangkok remain closed until May Photo by Nutthawat Wicheanbut. Do you like the content of this article? Banpu reports strong 3Q performance results with proven path to demonstrate substantial growth in greener energy portfolios. Those that read the PSPOs piece will appreciate the overlaps. Curfews, by closing access to space, prevent us from staking a political claim in the public realm after dark.

The wilful violation of curfews, such as in Tahrir Square in , when protesters ignored a curfew imposed by Hosni Mubarak, can be a powerful political statement. Though this was ostensibly imposed to prevent fires from catching while people slept, those who will have read William I — by Eleanor Farjeon in school will recall that it was more likely about preventing candlelit late-night public plotting.

People found not in their homes after the curfew were subject to incarceration, with particular ire levelled at those found outdoors in public squares and on roads. In the United States, where the first Curfew law was passed in Nebraska in , youth are circumscribed with particular vigilance. As of , at least US cities had curfews prohibiting anyone under 18 from being on the streets at night.

Around cities also have daytime curfews to keep children off the streets during school hours, making the hours when youths actually have a right to be in public space extremely narrow.

During the second world war, all people of Japanese ancestry in the United States, regardless of resident status, were forced to stay home between the hours of 8pm and 6am. In , a year-old student named Gordon Hirabayashi walked the streets of Seattle after curfew until he was arrested. He then brought a constitutional challenge to the law. Assuming that space becomes unsafe at night, however, is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If the night is a place where we think only violence happens, then people go into the night expecting that and make it manifest.

For a few years, I lived in the Manor House warehouses in north London. Often, late at night, I would find myself stranded by public transport at Finsbury Park Station and walk through the park to get home only to find that the gates on the north side were locked. Inevitably, next to the locked gate, the wooden fence panels would have been kicked out by a frustrated walker. Despite the park closing at dusk, it was constantly full of chancers: rough sleepers, cruisers, drug addicts and urban explorers opening manholes, all trying to avoid detection by lurking in the shadows.

On more than one occasion, I saw park security chasing groups of kids to the fence line where they all jumped into the street whooping and hollering. If the park were open at night, these chase scenes would not need unfold. Britain has a long history of closing access to public space at night, including most Royal Parks. Freedom from social scrutiny indeed. Perhaps it is due to the lack of vibrant night-time social spaces outdoors that the English are quick to defend the pub as a place for nocturnal debate and debauchery.

However, these spaces are also under attack through the passing of laws that prohibit certain activities after a certain time, even behind the closed doors of private enterprise. At first blush, it appears to have succeeded in decreasing violence. Park officials said they had not received the order from city governor Aswin Kwanmuang to open them. The parks have been closed since April 25, when the capital was hit by the third round of the Covid epidemic, which remains unchecked.

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