In most Mexican cities, public administrations use street furniture as propaganda, painting with the color of their political party every change of government. In terms of urban landscape, these behaviors do not create conditions of quality of public space, identity and attachment to the place by the inhabitants
In Poland, nothing like this happens. It is a democratic country and the regulations from 2015 regulate the issues of advertising in public space
Thank you Dr. Beata. In Mexico there are regulations but for commercial advertising and electoral propaganda in urban furniture. The "subtle" practice they do is to paint with colors and shapes that represent their political party
This is something in common across countries where there is dictatorship or lack of freedom or democracy. Dictators always misuse the so-called public space as a kind of space to demonstrate their own supporters' power.
What happened in your country is relatively familiar to China's situation. Chinese party and government use public spaces for every kind of political and administrative information, not only in cities, also in rural areas. But people get used to it and it has been a part of national political culture.
These are very important issues. Perception is very important, the human scale. Beautiful space helps in good interaction, synergy between people. Every year I present this film to students. The most important thing is the ability to create small and large communities. Space has a significant impact on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n0diFe-qvg
In the current age, public places are either stages of political use or are mainly managed by the local governments. Some are simply privatized and sone are just for displays. Hence, they are pseudo public places.
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