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Capital Spaces - The Multiple Complex Public Spaces of a Global City (Hardcover, New)
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Capital Spaces - The Multiple Complex Public Spaces of a Global City (Hardcover, New)
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In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that
public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive
preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the needs
of wider society. Whether it is the privatization of public space
through commerical developments like shopping malls and business
parks, the gentrification of existing spaces by campaigns against
perceived anti-social behaviour or the increasing domination of
public areas by private transport in the form of the car, the urban
public space is seen as under threat. But are things really that
bad? Has the market really become the sole factor that influences
the treatment of public space? Have the financial and personal
interests of the few really come to dominate those of the many? To
answer these questions Matthew Carmona and Filipa Wunderlich have
carried out a detailed investigation of the modern public spaces of
London, that most global of cities. They have developed a new
typology of public spaces applicable to all cities, a typology that
demonstrates that to properly assess contemporary urban places
means challenging the over-simplification of current critiques.
Global cities are made up of many overlapping public spaces, good
and bad; this book shows how to analyze this complexity, and to
understand it.
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