Privately Owned Public Space: A New Framework for Designing Public Spaces in Mid-Sized Cities

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A study proposing a new framework for designing privately owned public spaces (POPS) in mid-sized U.S. cities, noting that while POPS are established in large cities such as New York, San Francisco and Seattle, they remain uncommon in mid-sized ones. Drawing on case studies of 15 POPS in New York City, it identifies factors important to POPS development and produces design guidelines, which it then applies to a design example in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. The authors report that the results indicate the framework is feasible for mid-sized-city application.