A public space with rules, regulations, restrictions cannot reflect the essence of the public space. We must stop deceiving ourselves by calling the privatized spaces ‘public’ and start drawing a line between ‘private’ and ‘public’.
This line should not be blurry, it should be sharp and clear.
Limitation and privatization of public spaces means disconnecting people from zones of freedom, shutting down the forum which public life is acted out: loss of basic democratic rights.
Disfunctional public spaces are born.
Public spaces which are given over to private interests, should be given back to the public, should be redesigned in terms of free speaking, free acting and free moving.
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