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Post-Revolution Urban Landscape: Transforming Public Spaces after 2011 Revolutions
New York - Zuccotti Park, Cairo - Tahrir Square, Istanbul - Gezi Park, London - St. Paul’ Cathedral, Madrid - Puerta del Sol; these cities and places have acquired new significances after 2011, a year in which revolutions represent the power that people and public spaces have in societies. Unlike previous revolutions, these are germinated in the virtual space with such intensity that they connect simultaneously plazas, squares and streets around the world. This momentum represents, in the contemporary scope, one of the most important aspects of the future city’s dynamics, the transformation of the urban landscape. Right after the development of these revolutions, local governments were aware of the power these events symbolized, for they started to apply quickly urban regulations that had been popular in New York, but to some extent hidden from the public sphere, namely the trading of public space to private investors. Planning departments became suspects and mediators, public assets were rapidly privatized and contemporary cities faced rampant land speculation. This legal figure for public space transaction is called Privately Owned Public Spaces – POPS. Patterns of ownership and control based on values of private property have been inflexible, a state in which even the public attention could do little to shift it. In this urban situation, the sense of public rises as a matter, which engages as a whole the public life – law, speech, representation, policy, distribution, and economics. These Privately Owned Public Spaces use design as a way of considering, representing, and constructing relationships between people and space, in a sphere of general control and surveillance.
Post-Revolution Urban Landscape: Transforming Public Spaces after 2011 Revolutions
New York - Zuccotti Park, Cairo - Tahrir Square, Istanbul - Gezi Park, London - St. Paul’ Cathedral, Madrid - Puerta del Sol; these cities and places have acquired new significances after 2011, a year in which revolutions represent the power that people and public spaces have in societies. Unlike previous revolutions, these are germinated in the virtual space with such intensity that they connect simultaneously plazas, squares and streets around the world. This momentum represents, in the contemporary scope, one of the most important aspects of the future city’s dynamics, the transformation of the urban landscape. Right after the development of these revolutions, local governments were aware of the power these events symbolized, for they started to apply quickly urban regulations that had been popular in New York, but to some extent hidden from the public sphere, namely the trading of public space to private investors. Planning departments became suspects and mediators, public assets were rapidly privatized and contemporary cities faced rampant land speculation. This legal figure for public space transaction is called Privately Owned Public Spaces – POPS. Patterns of ownership and control based on values of private property have been inflexible, a state in which even the public attention could do little to shift it. In this urban situation, the sense of public rises as a matter, which engages as a whole the public life – law, speech, representation, policy, distribution, and economics. These Privately Owned Public Spaces use design as a way of considering, representing, and constructing relationships between people and space, in a sphere of general control and surveillance.
Post-Revolution Urban Landscape: Transforming Public Spaces after 2011 Revolutions
Ana Medina Gavilanes (author)
2017
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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, Architecture , NA1-9428
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