Curating the City: Public Spaces and the Framing of Urban Architecture
By Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
July 2024 EDITORIAL
THE KEY DIFFERENCE that I observe when visiting a thriving city and a striving one is in the manifest gap in ambition and maintenance between private places and public spaces.In fact, the role of government—be this federal, state or local—is on obvious display when one considers an urban ecosystem that way. What defines modern governance and the nation-state is that all spaces that are not privately owned are under the control and management of the State. Therefore, to what extent...
Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His recent books include The Eurasian Core and its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World (ISEAS 2016). Homepage: wikibeng.com
