Privately owned public one space

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Anyone else see Will Self on C4 news 7PM last night?

 

Interesting piece about privately owned public open space.

[growforest]

Think he's right about much of the "feel" of public spaces being usurped by companies and made corporate. I don't visit hospital often, thankfully, but last time I was there it had the look of a shopping mall. In my own city - York - the church owns a great deal of "public" space. It's £15 to visit our own cathedral and we have beggars on the street unable to find a council-run shelter. (Getting into different territory there...)

Self writes some good stuff for the Evening Standard Will Self: Give the freedom of the city to our urban explorers | Comment | London Evening Standard

- here about urban "place-hackers". Reminds me of a thread started by someone who wanted to climb a council-owned tree covered in ivy. Why should he have to worry?

When we have our revolution, people will think differently about their entitlements to where we live and breathe.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Absolutely agree!

 

Since watching him last night, which was a brilliant interview (he destroyed the corporate muppet and ended with a good laugh at the absence of a credible argument) and previously on question time, I'm taking a closer interest in him.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Selling space ? Britain's public spaces going private - Will Self

[agrimog]

isnt there anold regulation somewhere that states a council cant own property, they can only hold it in trust for the people, I know they get round that by forming fraudulant ltd companies and sailing very close to the illegal side of fraud