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Title Managing public space - A blind spot of urban planning and design
ID_Doc 7209
Authors Duivenvoorden, E; Hartmann, T; Brinkhuijsen, M; Hesselmans, T
Title Managing public space - A blind spot of urban planning and design
Year 2021
Published
DOI 10.1016/j.cities.2020.103032
Abstract Managing public space is a big and important blind spot of urban and regional planning and design. Important, because major transition challenges, such as climate adaptation, energy transition, circular economy, mobility, and governance require substantial changes in public space - both physical and social changes. Big, because managing public space entails enormous budgets and potentials over a long period of time in which management and maintenance takes place, which are largely spent operational and sectoral. A more integral and strategic management of public space entails huge potentials, which are hitherto neglected in the academic debate on public space in general and that of cities in particular. This contribution builds on explorative work on management of public space in academia and on a survey of Dutch managing public space practice and pleads for a more systematic academic debate and research on management of public space.
Author Keywords Public space; Asset management; Managing Public Space; Urban transitions; Wicked problems; Netherlands
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000607574300010
WoS Category Urban Studies
Research Area Urban Studies
PDF https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.103032
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