01197nam a22001577a 4500 20260703151720.0 9781464814495 307.121KAW 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 Public spaces. BK 11555 11555 0 0 0 0 U001 U001 Personal Development 2026-06-19 126335.00 0 307.121KAW UR010545 2026-07-03 15:19:20 2026-07-03 BK