Ohrid musician Vladimir Četkar posted a video from the renovated Dutch Park in Ohrid - a space that recently got new play equipment, benches, wooden loungers and trash bins, and now, as the footage shows, regular piles of filth and vandalism too.

With his trademark sarcasm, Četkar addressed the authorities: "Mister 'Crapper' is back here in the Dutch Park and has made his masterpiece." Alongside the "aromatherapy" and the flies, as he ironically puts it, he called for cameras to be installed so those who trash the park can be identified and documented.

The park is one of those places where children, young people and tourists relax every day. The money for the renovation has been spent, the new look is there - and yet, within a few weeks, part of it has been turned into a public toilet and a wrecking ground.

There's something painfully familiar in this picture, and it isn't only an Ohrid story. We invest in public space, take photos at the opening, and then destroy that same space ourselves. The cameras Četkar is asking for might catch someone - but the real question is a different one: why do we always need someone watching us to keep something that's ours? A culture of public space isn't built with cameras, but with a sense of shame that, it seems, part of us no longer has.