The hidden wealth of cities creating, financing, and managing public spaces

Kaw, Jon.

The hidden wealth of cities creating, financing, and managing public spaces - Washington World Bank Group 2020 - xxii, 450p. illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 cm.

This book identifies effective strategies to plan, create and manage government and privately-owned public urban spaces, and explores the broad spectrum of ways to govern
public spaces and how they can be financially sustainable assets. The book consists of three Parts. Part I explores the different degrees of "publicness" of public spaces and frames
the delivery of well-designed and managed public spaces in cities through better asset lifecycle management. Part II examines the quality and spatial patterns of how public spaces
are planned and distributed across selected cities. Part III focuses on how different types of public spaces are planned, designed, funded, implemented, and managed, drawing
upon a series of city case studies

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Public spaces.

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