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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813818903321

Autore

Kaw Jon Kher

Titolo

The hidden wealth of cities : : creating, financing, and managing public spaces / / Jon Kher Kaw, Hyunji Lee, Sameh Wahba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : World Bank Group, , 2020

ISBN

1-4648-1493-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Public spaces

City planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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"--