Identifying consumerist privately owned public spaces: The ideal type of mass private property

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (15) ◽  
pp. 3464-3479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuefan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
The Ideal

Over the past several decades, more and more social activities happen in places which are privately owned. Scholars have called these properties ‘mass private property’ (MPP): the private properties that are open to the mass. However, while MPP arouses scholars’ attention and interest, there is not a clear understanding of what type of physical space is a ‘mass private property’. Rather, the concept of MPP is usually used in an intuitive and taken-for-granted way without examining the ideal essences of diverse MPP spaces. This essay clarifies the criteria by developing the ideal type of MPP. Although MPPs are diverse, to some extent they should share the ideal-typing features of real-estate, legal and sociological dimensions.

The Grid Cities

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-127
Author(s):  
Francesco Rotondo
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The South ◽  
Central Places ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adriatic Coast ◽  
The City

The pattern of the grid city now seems dated and far from the metropolisation phenomena that characterize contemporary cities. In fact, as already happened in the past, the grid cities manage to evolve favoring the needs of its contemporary inhabitants. In this chapter, the authors try to understand some phenomena that characterize the transformation of the urban form of the grid city, highlighting its own ability to evolve between tradition and innovation. During these 200 years, the grid city, its buildings, and its public spaces were created, lived, and processed in multiple ways: built, replaced, drawn, renovated, restored. Here, the authors do not want to describe these planning and building tools, but they want to discuss the possible implications of the different transformation modes used in the grid city can have on urban and architectural perception of the physical space, the quality of life, and viability of these central places for the city's identity. The city of Bari, on the Adriatic Coast, in the South of Italy, is used as a case of study to represent concepts developed in the chapter.

scholarly journals TENSIONS BETWEEN THEORY AND HISTORY IN VON MISES’S CRITIQUE OF SOCIALISM

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanoel Boff
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Means Of Production ◽  
The Ideal

ABSTRACT The article investigates the relation between praxeology and history in the critique Mises directs at the possibility of the long-term existence of a socialist commonwealth. We argue that Mises makes no clear distinction between the praxeological concept of 'private property' (associated with the possession of means of production) and the historical concept of the ideal-type 'private property' (associated to property rights - see HODGSON, 2015). The lack of precision between the theoretical and the historical concepts of private property prevents Mises’s critique from being an 'exact law', as he would have it. Finally, we show in the last section the consequences for Mises’s critique of socialism of having a historical and a praxeological concept of private property.

Constraints on the Interactive Organization as an Ideal Type

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Krackhardt
Keyword(s):  
Ideal Type ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Sources Of Resistance ◽  
Bureaucratic Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
The One ◽  
Informal Relations ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

Expressed in the theme of this book [C. Hecksher and A. Donnellon, The Post Bureaucratic Organization, the book from which this chapter is reproduced] is a hope, a desire for a better organization than the one we have experienced for generations, the infamous bureaucracy. I am sympathetic with this hope. All of us who have studied organizations have encountered the debilitating effects of bureaucratic forms, whether managed well or not. And progress is made, as the Kennedy quote in the epigraph suggests, by dreamers who are willing to let go of the way of the past and peer into the neverland of what could be. Dreams motivate. They liberate us from the institutional constraints of history and social inertia so that we can explore new, unimaginable landscapes. But dreams also conveniently leave out the obstacles and problems that reality so rudely interjects. Thus, dreams do not guarantee success. And although the last two words “Why not” from the above quote are presumably rhetorical, one could take them literally and suggest that dreams should be scrutinized for loopholes. The answer to the question. “Why not?” may just be, “Because it won’t work.” It is not my purpose here to prejudge the viability of the post bureaucratic form. But, if it is to succeed, we must explore the obstacles to its evolution, the possible constraints to its existence. If we can anticipate the sources of resistance to its survival, we will have a better chance of nurturing it along until it can predominate among its alternatives. This chapter is built around two questions: (1) Can the ideal post bureaucratic form exist? and (2) If it could exist, would we want it to? The characteristics of interactive forms are described in the Heckscher- Applegate “Introduction” and narrowed down in the Heckscher chapter “Defining the Post-Bureaucratic Type” [in The Post-Bureaucratic Organization]. Although I see differences in the various chapters about what ideal type might entail, there are characteristics that emerge as dominant in this proposed form. Foremost among these defining characteristics is the reliance on informal relations, or associations, that cut across, or perhaps replace, formal channels established by the organization.

Gardening as More than Urban Agriculture: Perspectives from Smaller Midwestern Cities on Urban Gardening Policies and Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Christopher Strunk ◽  
Ursula Lang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Vacant Lots ◽  
Urban Gardening ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Policies And Practices

For the most part, research and policymaking on urban gardening have focused on community gardens, whether in parks, vacant lots, or other public land. This emphasis, while important for many Midwestern cities, can obscure the significance of privately owned land such as front yard and back yard and their crucial connections with gardening on public land. In this case study, we examine how policies and practices related to gardening and the management of green space in two Midwestern cities exceed narrow visions of urban agriculture. The article explores the cultivation of vacant lot gardens and private yards as two modes of property in similar Midwestern contexts and argues that the management of green space is about more than urban agriculture. Instead, we show how urban gardening occurs across public/private property distinctions and involves a broader set of actors than those typically included in sustainability policies. Gardening also provides a key set of connections through which neighbors understand and practice sustainability in Midwestern cities.

Carl Dahlhaus and the "Ideal Type"

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Gossett
Keyword(s):  
Ideal Type ◽  
The Ideal

The Tyranny of the Ideal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Gaus
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Moral Inquiry ◽  
Open Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
Just Society ◽  
The Ideal

This book lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. It shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just framework. The book argues that if we are to take diversity seriously and if moral inquiry is sincere about shaping the world, then the pursuit of idealized and perfect theories of justice—essentially, the entire production of theories of justice that has dominated political philosophy for the past forty years—needs to change. Drawing on recent work in social science and philosophy, the book points to an important paradox: only those in a heterogeneous society—with its various religious, moral, and political perspectives—have a reasonable hope of understanding what an ideally just society would be like. However, due to its very nature, this world could never be collectively devoted to any single ideal. The book defends the moral constitution of this pluralistic, open society, where the very clash and disagreement of ideals spurs all to better understand what their personal ideals of justice happen to be. Presenting an original framework for how we should think about morality, this book rigorously analyzes a theory of ideal justice more suitable for contemporary times.

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