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Defining a Public: The Management of Privately Owned Public Space

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  • Jeremy Németh

    (Department of Planning and Design, University of Colorado, CB 126, PO Box 173364, Denver, Colorado, 80206, USA, jeremy.nemeth@ucdenver.edu)

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This paper empirically explores the management of privately owned public space. It examines 163 spaces produced through New York City’s incentive zoning programme, whereby developers provide and manage a public space in exchange for floor area ratio (FAR) bonuses. Developers of these bonus spaces employ a variety of management approaches, each correlating with common theories of spatial control in publicly owned spaces. However, as developer priorities are often fiscally driven, most approaches severely limit political, social and democratic functions of public space and produce a constricted definition of the public. As such, privately owned public spaces have deleterious effects on concepts of citizenship and representation, even as they become the new models for urban space provision and management.

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  • Jeremy Németh, 2009. "Defining a Public: The Management of Privately Owned Public Space," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 46(11), pages 2463-2490, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:46:y:2009:i:11:p:2463-2490
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098009342903
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