Remaking the Public Space’ ERASMUS IP A27D130ACA06D722 / Lifelong Long Learning Intensive Programme KU Leuven
Architecture, Sint-Lucas Brussels and Ghent Campuses, Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning
Throughout the world’s cities, public space is playing an ever more important role in the production of places. At the same time, it has become the core of contradicting demand. Commodification, commercialisation and even militarisation of public space are indicators of its declining quality as a factor of urban identity, culture and the freedom of communication. While neglect and deterioration are among the factors for this withering; the ...