Utopia Arkitekter wants to start a discussion in Stockholm: how do we manage and develop our public spaces" The definition of the word public, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is something ?open to or shared by all the people of an area or country.? However, as commercialism continues to rise, Utopia Arkitekter has a problem with our new applications of indoor ?public? spaces. As architecture critic Rowan Moore writes in Why We Build, ?Identity, desire and stimulation become things you have to buy, as clothes, restaurant meals of calculated diversity, and rides on the ski slope or up the Burj Khalifa.? The problem is that as our inner cities adopt more commercial indoor

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Utopia Arkitekter wants to start a discussion in Stockholm: how do we manage and develop our public spaces" The definition of the word public, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is something ?open to or shared by all the people of an area or country.? However, as commercialism continues to rise, Utopia Arkitekter has a problem with our new applications of indoor ?public? spaces. As architecture critic Rowan Moore writes in Why We Build, ?Identity, desire and stimulation become things you have to buy, as clothes, restaurant meals of calculated diversity, and rides on the ski slope or up the Burj Khalifa.? The problem is that as our inner cities adopt more commercial indoorThe problem is that as our inner cities adopt more commercial indoor public s...