I’m starting to compile as many definitions of public space as I can from here. 2011 First, the definition from the London Assembly’s 2011’s report, ‘Public life in private hands Managing London’s public space’, which started to acknowledge the massive shift to
There are two excellent books that chart the planning processes that shaped open green space in London in the 19th and 20th centuries: Matti O Hannikainen, The Greening of London, 1920-2000 (Routledge, Abingdon, 2016) Peter Clark, Jean-Luc Pinol and Richard Rodgers, eds,
I’m working on terminology and usage this week. Reading through and keyword searching the local newspapers, it is evident that ‘open space’ is by far the more common term for places that we would now call ‘public space’. I will do some