A critique of the socio-spatial debate and the publicness of urban space

Wang, Yiming

doi:10.1080/00291951.2018.1470564

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“…Both types of space are public, although the degree of publicness is different. To conclude, different levels of publicness result from increasingly blurred boundaries between "public" and "private" in urbanized space [31].…”

Section: Criteria Of Publicnessmentioning

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Models of Community-Friendly Recreational Public Space in Warsaw Suburbs. Methodological Approach

Mantey

Kępkowicz

2020

Sustainability

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In recent years, after the rapid and chaotic suburbanization in the 1990s, public spaces were gradually appearing in the new suburbs of postsocialist Poland. It is worth verifying to what extent these spaces are used on a daily basis. This paper aims to present a method of measuring the utility value of recreational public spaces and to determine the relationship between the utility value of space and its publicness. It suggests models of publicness of the most community-friendly recreational public spaces in Warsaw suburbs. As the research shows, intended diversity has the greatest influence on the prosocial character of space. Proximity, on the other hand, does not influence utility value so much. Location at some distance from the main nodes of activity and the highest concentration of houses, but with safe pedestrian access, is of more importance and should be promoted as a condition of successful suburban recreational space. The main conclusion from the research is that the most community-friendly recreational spaces do not have to be fully public. The measurement tools used in analyzing socio-spatial relations contributes to the development of the academic methods of studying the quality of public space.

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Section: Criteria Of Publicnessmentioning

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Models of Community-Friendly Recreational Public Space in Warsaw Suburbs. Methodological Approach

Mantey

Kępkowicz

2020

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“…In understanding property in this way, Wang (2018), building upon an in-depth review of earlier work, develops a framework to analyze the publicness of the urban commons. Table 1 shows Wang's Privatizing the Urban Commons in China Table 1 An Analytical Framework to Assess the Publicness of the Urban Commons…”

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“…A more holistic and pragmatic framework than those of Kilian (1998), Iveson (2007), and Németh (2012) is proposed by Yiming Wang (2018) in a recent work. Following Foster and Iaione’s (2016: 285) argument that “any articulation of the urban commons needs to be grounded in a theory of property,” Wang takes a property rights approach to study the continuum and relativities of the urban commons.…”

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“…The review shows that, to a large extent, the debates are caught in a dyadic, public-private ownership line of thinking. To collapse the binary, the third section of the article introduces and compares four analytical frameworks developed by Markus (1993), Iveson (2007), Németh (2012), andWang (2018). Those frameworks show how the quality of the urban commons can be empirically assessed in dialectical ways.…”

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“…This park is different from the 239 urban parks and green lands listed in the online database of the Landscaping and City Appearance Administrative Bureau of Shanghai, or LCAAB. It is privately owned, whereas the listed parks are publicly owned and managed Wang's (2018). analytical framework, introduced earlier, can help to further clarify the differences between Taipingqiao Park and others parks.…”

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Privatizing the Urban Commons Under Ambiguous Property Rights in China: Is Marketization a Remedy to the Tragedy of the Commons?

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The debate on the vitality of the commons remains unsettled, but the attempt by the Chinese state to develop a marketized property rights system to address the so-called tragedy of the commons has backfired. In Shanghai and other major Chinese cities, the economic transformation has led to an ambiguous property rights system that creates complex and uncertain property relations between the state and private land developers. The resulting ineffective uses and conflicts in the commons are well known, but how to address them is contested. Can privatization drive better use of urban land in China? How do the ambiguous property relations between the state and the private sector affect the spatial design, management, use, and quality of the urban commons in Chinese cities? This article addresses these questions by engaging theoretical debates on how the commons should be held, analyzing the origin and key features of the ambiguous property relation in China, and drawing on a property rights approach to investigate the empirical case of a specific privately owned and managed urban park in Shanghai. The results show that not only does the commodification of property create inherently pervasive ambiguity in the land market, marketization also denies citizens their rights to public space. These findings raise fundamental questions about the idea that marketizing land is a sure tonic to address social problems.

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A critique of the socio-spatial debate and the publicness of urban space

Cited by 7 publications

References 63 publications

Models of Community-Friendly Recreational Public Space in Warsaw Suburbs. Methodological Approach

Models of Community-Friendly Recreational Public Space in Warsaw Suburbs. Methodological Approach

Privatizing the Urban Commons Under Ambiguous Property Rights in China: Is Marketization a Remedy to the Tragedy of the Commons?

Exploring the influence of the private park on spatial equity in urban parks: A case study in Seoul, South Korea

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