The Pros And Cons Of Privatization Of Public Spaces

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Privatization engenders internalization of funcions through architecture of control. Owing to that, it notices the unveiled substitution of democratic public spaces for hermetic enclaves by jeopardizing aspects as social heterogeneity and physical proximity and even eradication of traditional public spaces. Those, throughout time, can turn into lost spaces in the urban fabric. Trancik (1986) alleges that 'the sanctity of private enterprise has also contributed significantly to lost spaces in our urban centers' (p.15). As a result, this outlook can trigger off the annihilation of public spaces. Similarly, Watson (2002) declares that 'at the extremes the privatization of public space has been exposed as fortresslike and militaristic as private

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