Today, many urban theorists neglect or even reject the

existence of interior public space. These thinkers focus

on the publicly-owned space, often outdoors, and forget
certain publicly-used spaces, where the people actually
are! Let alone interiors as such. Interior public spaces
are not new, unlike some presume. Over time, they have
played an important role in a variety of socio-spatial
transformations and always they have been crucial for the
city and its culture. As long as theorists do not respect
interior public spaces and thus really understand the
complicated network of paths of people, they are lost in a
self-created maze.
Published by Delft University of Technology
Graphic design: Jenny Nauta
ISBN 978-94-6186-264-8
2014 Maurice Harteveld
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Interior
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of an Urbanist