The Public Private Produce: A contradictory mixed-use development of a private NSA office with public housing and sportscenter

Public space in Manhattan is mainly generated through a mechanism called Privately Owned Public Spaces, shortly POPS, allowing developers to construct taller buildings in exchange for the provision of public space. As a result of this incentivizing mechanism there are countless manifestations of public private contradiction in the city of New...

Public space in private perspective: Een verkenning van de randvoorwaarden en mogelijkheden bij privatisering van de openbare ruimte

Privatization of public space has some immediate commercial purposes. Buying the right on return on the way the urban space is maintained and managed can be profitable to private parties when an area accommodates many (permanent) commercial and/or residential users in combination with little public space. When there is little profit, private...