Public Space, public interest and Challenges of Urban Transformation

Abstract

It's more than evident that urban growth and spatial, social transformations through it, were followed with non-adequate dynamics of urban planning as process and as result of that some parts of urban areas have been more degraded than sustainably developed, especially some of public spaces in urban areas. Those transformations were as a result of different urban challenges, especially: • Lack of evaluation and research based on determinative factors for good management of urban growth, • Lack of institutional efficiency (different institutional levels), for implementation of development policies, • Lack of policy instruments and mechanisms towards integrated urban planning, • Lack of institutional coordination, vertical and horizontal relationships, during planning process Focus of this paper is based on question: How urban transformation using innovative and interdisciplinary methods, can affect public urban spaces in relation with public policy? (Study cases from Prishtina and Skopje).