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'Clubification' of urban public spaces? The withdrawal or the re-definition of the role of local government in the management of public spaces

De Magalhaes, CS; Freire Trigo, S; (2017) 'Clubification' of urban public spaces? The withdrawal or the re-definition of the role of local government in the management of public spaces. Journal of Urban Design , 22 (6) pp. 738-756. 10.1080/13574809.2017.1336059. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper reports on a case study on the forms of urban public spaces governance that are emerging in the UK out of a rearrangement of governance responsibilities between local government, communities and private interests. Based on cases of public spaces in London under a variety of different governance arrangements, the paper critiques the dominant explanations of those processes and suggests a far more complex picture in which empowerment and disempowerment of stakeholders of various kinds happen at the same time, along complex lines defined by geography, strength of stake and representation of that stake in a formalised governance transfer contract. As the paper suggests, the resulting ‘localisation’ of governance, the devolution of governance responsibilities to those local actors with the stronger stake on them, does not intrinsically reduce the publicness dimension of public space, but it reshapes that notion towards one with a variety of ‘publicnesses’- with their own governance dynamics and positive and negative consequences.

Type: Article
Title: 'Clubification' of urban public spaces? The withdrawal or the re-definition of the role of local government in the management of public spaces
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2017.1336059
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2017.1336059
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Public space governance; publicness; club goods; contractual governance; London
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1519969
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