Planning Public Space in the Vertical City (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Bringing together debates on public space, housing, infrastructure, and financialized urbanism, this comparative study spotlights "vertical allocation"--co-located public services located within private, mixed-use developments--in cities across the globe.

Planning Public Space in the Vertical City asks a deceptively simple question: what happens when public life is stacked inside private buildings? Bringing together eleven original case studies from London, Zurich, Munich, Brussels, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Toronto, São Paulo, Tokyo, Seoul, and Adelaide, it traces how schools, daycares, homeless shelters, clinics, parks, bus terminals, and community hubs are woven into high-value mixed-use projects through the colocation of public floorspace in mixed development, known as "vertical allocation."

Moving from theory to practice, the book unpacks the political economy behind these projects: value capture tools, density bonuses, long-term ground leases, negotiated obligations, and creative public-private-non-profit partnerships. It looks closely at ownership and management arrangements, conflicts over access and costs, and the shifting "publicness" of spaces that function as urban commons. Rather than celebrating verticality uncritically, the volume foregrounds questions of equity and exclusion and asks who really benefits when public services are interwoven with private development. For planners, urban designers, lawyers, policymakers, and scholars, it offers a rare comparative framework, conceptual language, and concrete design and governance lessons for making vertically mixed cities more just, legible, and accessible.