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"In these new, 'postpublic' spaces, access is predicated upon ability to pay."

"...municipal agencies have been successful in linking public subsidies to the provision of habitable open spaces, in no small part because such spaces enhance the value of the project to the developers. Municipal agencies have not, however, been particularly successful (or, in some instances, terribly concerned) with assuring right of free access to these spaces. Thus, public subsidies have often been expended to create plazas that are stealthy behind hedgerows and grade changes, jittery with blue-blazered private security, and accessible only at the discretion of private owners. Most have small bronze plaques at the property line reading 'PRIVATE PROPERTY. RIGHT TO PASS BY PERMISSION, AND SUBJECT TO CONTROL, OF OWNERS. sec 1008 CIVIL CODE.'" Steven Flusty (2004). De-Coca-Colonization: Remaking the Globe from the Inside Out. New York: Routledge, quotes from p. 76, 77-78.