Presentation on a space

I just finished watching the directors cut of the 1979 movie The Warriors and it got me to wondering.
Every place has it's little clique, every gang has it's "turf", so who's turf is Drake Circus?

Obviously this is a new development and is considered a public place, but even public places must be "owned" by someone. But how do you rate possession? Is it the person who owns the property, who more likely than not never visits unless on occasion. Is it the leaseholders who run the stores and maintain the facility? Is it the person whom uses the builing every day and consideres it theirs?

For instance take the M&S coffee bar in the main court, or the Starbucks at the other end. There must be a thousand people that consider each table in either establishment to be their territory by right, in fact most of us feel more comfortable in familiar surroundings and will head for, or as close to these places as possible.

A fitting analogy would be public transport. Everyone refers to the transport they use as theirs. "My bus leaves in x minutes" etc. And nobody complains or says otherwise? How is it we can accept this term sometimes but not others? Is it something we let slip when it suits us? Or maybe i'm just reading too much into this...

I'm sure the Mall is a perfectly sensible place for groups of people to congregate, perhaps it is a policy of the establishment that large groups of people are unwelcome there. We sure did sense the security presence last time we went filming there.

Just how many people do they consider a disturbance? And what kind of person would they be more likely to eject for "Loitering" which has got to be one of the funniest concepts ever. A few spring to mind In particular Groups of teenagers and / or students after school hours.

Next time you go out on your bus to your local shopping centre have a look around your shops and see how many other people consider what is theirs you might be surprised.