Chapter The direction of wayfinding. From the identification of a place to th…

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Public interiority: exploring interiors in the public realm

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Towards a metropolitan public space network: lessons, projects and prospects …

Public space as network / Ana Beja da Costa and João Rafael Santos -- Public space and food production / Leonel Fadigas -- Metropolitan park constellations of ecological systems : lessons from Ho Chi Minh City / Kelly Shannon.

Sidewalks :conflict and negotiation over public space

Examines the evolution of an undervalued urban space and how conflicts over competing uses--from the right to sit to the right to parade--have been negotiated.Urban sidewalks, critical but undervalued public spaces, have been sites for political demonstrations and urban greening, promenades for the wealthy and the well-dressed, and shelterless shelters for the homeless. On sidewalks, decade aft…

Owning the street :the everyday life of property

"Examines the intimate connection between property and its social and material context through PARK(ing) Day, a loosely-organised international event to reclaim street space from cars"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Urban play :make-believe, technology, and space

"How new media forms can influence spatial design and placemaking"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Making a middle landscape

Today's suburban metropolitan development of single-family homes, shopping centers, corporate offices, and roadway systems constitute what Peter Rowe calls a ""middle landscape"" between the city and the country. Looking closely at suburban America in terms of design and physical planning, Rowe builds a case for a new way of seeing and building suburbia - complete with theoretical underpinnings…

The Grid and the Park Public Space and Urban Culture in Buenos Aires, 1887â€â€¦

Since its publication in Spanish in 1998, The Grid and the Park not only revitalized studies on the history of Buenos Aires, but also laid the foundation for a specific type of cultural work on the city —an urban perspective for cultural history, as its author would describe it— that has had a sustained impact in Latin America. Public space, embodied in the grid of city blocks and the park …