TY - BOOK ID - 145844351 TI - Capital spaces : the public spaces of a global city AU - Carmona, Matthew. AU - Wunderlich, Filipa. PY - 2012 SN - 1136311955 1136311963 0203118855 PB - Oxfordshire, England ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - City planning KW - Public spaces UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145844351 AB - In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the needs of wider society. Whether it is the privatization of public space through commercial developments like shopping malls and business parks, the gentrification of existing spaces by campaigns against perceived anti-social behaviour or the increasing domination of public areas by private transport in the form of the car, the urban public space is seen as under threat. But are things really that b ER -