Handel og privatisering av det offentlige rom

Abstract

Shopping and social life has also been connected to urban public
space. Streets and squares are seen as essential to the development
of western democratic societies. In this context shopping centres,
which to an increasing extend dominate retail trade in Norway, are
privately owned and controlled public space and represent a problem.
Private parties also help finance and control spaces outside the
traditional shopping centres, and they form part of a general trend
towards increasing trend of privatisation of the urban public space,
exclusion of certain groups etc. Any renewal of urban space in city
centres should in this respect be seen as much as an ethical rather
that just an aesthetic question.