Companion to Public Space

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1: Perspectives
	1. A critique of public space: between interaction and attraction
	2. Researching public space: from place-based to process-oriented approaches and methods
	3. The collective outdoors: memories, desires and becoming local in an era of mobility
	4. Appropriation of public space: a dialectical approach in designing publicness
	5. Landshape urbanism: the topography of public space
	6. Social justice as a framework for evaluating public space
PART 2: Influences
	7. Planetary public space: scale, context, and politics
	8. Public space and the New Urban Agenda: fostering a human-centered approach for the future of our cities
	9. Safety in public spaces from a place-oriented public health perspective
	10. Inclusiveness and exclusion in public open spaces for visually impaired persons
	11. Public space, austerity, and innovation (the London case)
	12. Visibility in public space and socially inclusive cities: a new conceptual tool for urban design and planning
	13. (Post?)-colonial parks: urban public space in Trinidad and Zanzibar
	14. Global homogenization of public space? A comparison of “Western” and “Eastern” contexts
	15. Right to the city (at night): spectacle and surveillance in public space
	16. The strange idea of the public: no, hiroba (..) is not public space; so, what?!
PART 3: Types
	17. Types: descriptive and analytic tools in public space research
	18. Public space use: a classification
	19. Mapping the publicness of public space: an access/control typology
	20. Private, hybrid, and public spaces: urban design assessment, comparisons, and recommendations
	21. Throwntogether spaces: disassembling ‘urban beaches’
	22. Designing parks for older adults
	23. Expanding common ground
	24. The skyscraper and public space: an uneasy history and the capacity for radical reinvention
	25. In pursuit of inclusive spaces? Memory, monuments, and the politics of public story telling
PART 4: Actions
	26. Public space as a space of resistance and democratic resilience
	27. Public space and the political: reconnecting urban resistance and urban emancipation
	28. Alternating narratives: the dynamic between public spaces, protests, and meanings
	29. Publics, pavements, and public-facing art in post-colonial urban Africa
	30. Bridging and bonding: public space and immigrant integration in Barcelona’s el Raval
	31. Public space challenges and possibilities in Latin America: the city’s socio-political dimensions through the lens of everyday life
	32. Typologies of the temporary: constructing public space
	33 .Bringing public spaces to life: the animation of public space
PART 5: Futures
	34. Public space and the terrorism of time
	35. Renewing the public trust doctrine: a solidarist account of public space
	36. Events on urban parkland: scrutinizing public–private partnerships in parks governance regimes
	37. The private lives of public spaces
	38. Using big data to support public space research
	39. Digital technologies and public space in contemporary China
	40. What if? Forecasting and composing public spaces
	41. The idea of the urban commons: challenges of enclosure, encroachment, and exclusion
Epilogue
Index