The management of urban landscapes concerns existing urban open spaces such as public
parks, playgrounds and residential green spaces. It involves many different actors and …

Since its launch in 2002, the journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (UFUG) has
welcomed research from a range of disciplines and perspectives, with the aim of enlarging …

There has long been a focus in urban landscape planning and design on the creation of
highquality public spaces, or place-making. Large amounts of capital continue to be spent …

Place-Kee** presents the latest research and practice on place-kee**–that is, the long-
term management of public and private open spaces–from around Europe and the rest of …

The potential of public parks being able to promote mental and physical health of the public
is widely discussed in recent years. However, the report for public park issues becomes a …

Studies about squares contribute to public management and to urban sustainability, once
they have an important social and environmental role. This paper aims to clear some …

This paper presents a novel approach for designing and optimizing maintenance service
contracts through the application of mechanism design theory. When offering a contract to its …

Although contracting-out has become widespread among the OECD countries in the last
couple of decades, there is limited knowledge about the arrangements chosen by urban …

Although the term 'quality'has a universal positive connotation and typically is framed by a
focus on improvements, its application includes as well as excludes the access, values and …

In this article, we address a series of interrelated issues in the managerial challenge of
public service contracting. This is done by prompting ten issues within four objectives and …