APOPS Founder and President Jerold Kayden recently discussed the role of POPS and public-private partnerships on a panel entitled, “Whose Public Space? Security and Access” at the Creative Cities: Re-framing Downtown conference, hosted by the American University in Cairo. Panelists addressed how public space is defined by context, culture, and politics. An article in the Cairo Observer, describing the conference, concludes from Kayden’s talk that “Whether publicly or privately owned, one cannot ‘design’ a space for public protest. Spaces of protest are taken, not made.” To read Mia Jankowicz’s full article for the Cairo Observer, click here.