Providing Public Space in a Contemporary Metropolis
eBook - ePub

Providing Public Space in a Contemporary Metropolis

Dilemmas and Lessons from London and Hong Kong

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Providing Public Space in a Contemporary Metropolis

Dilemmas and Lessons from London and Hong Kong

About this book

Increasingly, public space provision and management are being transferred from the public sector to real estate developers, private sector organisations, voluntary groups and community bodies. Contrasting the more historical, horizontal character of London with the intense street life of high-rise Hong Kong, this book tells the story of the two cities' relationships with non-traditional forms of public space governance.

The authors consider the implications for the 'publicness' of these complex spaces and the challenges and impacts that different forms of provision have on those with a stake in them, and on the cities as a whole.

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Yes, you can access Providing Public Space in a Contemporary Metropolis by Claudio De Magalhães,Louie Sieh in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Urban Planning & Landscaping. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures and Tables
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 Conceptualising public space for governance: a complex shared common good
  12. 3 The nature of publicness
  13. 4 The governance and management of public space
  14. 5 Public space management in London and Hong Kong
  15. 6 The quantitative challenges of public space provision and management
  16. 7 The qualitative challenges of public space provision and management: quality and responsiveness
  17. 8 Conclusions and the sketch of a practical theory of public space governance
  18. References
  19. Index