Remember the Gardens
13-06-2011
Artboom Festival Kraków
A discussion on the subject of the right to a city has been going on in many places in the world – from the Latin America through the Western Europe to India. Whom and to what purpose should the city public space serve – private or particular interest or the needs of all inhabitants? Who and how should decide on it? What does it mean in practice that the city space is public? Is the private ownership of few a more important value than fulfilment of basic everyday needs of most of the inhabitants, such as provision of meeting places, recreation environment, comfortable and environment-friendly transport?