Introduction: The social, economic, and political life of sidewalks -- Construction and evolution of sidewalks -- Promenading and the performance of individual identities -- Performing collective identities : parades, festivals, and celebrations -- Everyday politics and the right to the sidewalk -- Sidewalk as space of dissent -- Sidewalk as space of economic survival -- Sidewalk as shelter -- Sidewalk as urban forest -- Controlling danger, creating fear -- Municipalities in control -- Revisiting public space and the role of sidewalks.