The increasing involvement of the private sector in the design and management of urban public space has prompted some critical scholars to predict the 'end of public space'. This study reassesses the implications of private sector involvement through a comparative analysis of British and Dutch urban spaces, based on a threefold critique of the existing literature on the privatization of public space. The analysis is governed by a new model of pseudo-public space that consists of four dimensions of 'publicness': ownership, management, accessibility and inclusiveness (OMAI). The findings suggest that, while there are significant differences between the British and the Dutch cases, neither context supports the notion of a possible 'end of public space' in any literal sense.
Het huidige mobiliteitssysteem rammelt. Allereerst stoten we te veel broeikasgassen uit. Hiernaast is er een steeds grotere roep om leefbare steden, misschien wel zonder auto. Vraagstukken die om radicalere oplossingen vragen dan we gewend zijn van de hedendaagse vervoersplanologie. AGORA verkent de mogelijkheden van een mobiliteitstransitie. Zondag 29 mei 1955. Op deze zonnige eerste pinksterdag maakt Nederland kennis met een nieuw fenomeen: de file. Zoveel dagjesmensen trekken eropuit dat Oudenrijn, Nederlands eerste verkeersplein, de stroom auto's niet meer aankan. Bijna zestig jaar later staat dit Utrechtse
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