The Governance of Urban Public Spaces in Historic City Vijayapur: In the Public Interest or in the Interest of Local Governance?

The paper talk on the space where people of the land are natural elements. specially in consideration of the urban areas where the life of urbanites is spar to get a space and place to breath so it is the responsibility of the local governance and authorities to provide the same. This also explains how a governance can be managed to achieve the goal of a good livable urban public spaces. This chapter discusses the implications of governance transfer processes in public spaces with evidence from Vijayapur. It deploys an analytical framework based on the notion of rights over public goods to reflect on how those arrangements shape the attributes that make up the public essence of those spaces and their publicness.