ARCHITECTURE

dictionary of real estate
terms
glossary of commercial
real estate
dictionary of architecture
and construction
the dictionary of urbanism
planned and executed in a fixed
time period.
2. The total construction designed
by the architect, of which
the work performed under the
contract documents may be the
whole or a part.
regeneration scheme.
2. (U.S.) A public housing development.
The equivalent in
England and Wales is “estate”
and in Scotland “scheme.”
Property
The rights that one individual
has in lands or goods to the exclusion
of all others; right gained
from the ownership of wealth.
Property
Property Market: The supply and
demand for ownership interests
in property.
Property
Any asset, real or personal.
An ownership interest.
Property
Buildings, land, and infrastructure.
Public
Public Sector: The portion of the
economy run by various levels of
government.
Public
Public
Public Space: 1. An area within
a building to which there is free
access by the public, such as a
foyer or lobby.
2. In some codes, an area or
piece of land legally designated
for public use.
Public
Public Interest: That which
will be to the collective benefit
of society or of the inhabitants
of a particular place. Both politicians
and some professionals
(town planners, for example)
choose to see themselves as
having a role in defining the
public interest.
Public sphere: The sociologist
Jürgen Habermas’ concept of
the place where people talk
about life. It is a sphere which
“mediates between society and
state, and in which the public
organizes itself as the bearer
of public opinion” (Habermas,
1962). He sees its growth in
eighteenth-century England
with the development of a new
urban culture which flourished
in, among other places, the
coffee houses.
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