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- The areas of the geographical environment that are accessible to and shared by all members of the public. Such spaces include streets, parks, and wilderness.
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Nov 17, 2022 · What Is Public Space? answers the question from a personal, cultural, and urban design point of view. It begins by defining public space by what it does or accommodates and explores the many ways that spaces are made “public” by people, meanings, and practices.
Jun 9, 2015 · Public space is inherently political and potentially subversive; it is seen as both the manifestation of reigning political power but also as that of a more inclusive power that can reclaim it temporarily by occupying it for political purposes.
- Judit Bodnar
- 2015
May 6, 2014 · The global public spaces literature has been critical of contemporary manifestations of public space on a number of grounds. This article reports on a research project that attempted to gauge the validity of these critiques through an examination of new and regenerated public spaces in London.
- Matthew Carmona
- 2015
Dec 1, 2022 · By discriminating their difference, the lived sense corresponding to the dimensions of accessibility, management and inclusiveness, is adopted to define the ideal public space from the perspective of publicness. The proposed definition shows both theoretical and practical significance for urban planning and management.
Jul 26, 2022 · The authors review a wide array of literature on public space, as well as empirical case studies and research examples to develop a relational and “processual” understanding of public space. In making the case for giving users of spaces an active role in their research, van Melik and Spierings argue for a more dynamic and interactive ...
Oct 19, 2022 · This chapter discussed the successful placemaking concept, the distinct roles public spaces play in daily lives, and how the social qualities emerge. It shows the new paradigm of creative placemaking and the implementation strategies on a local communities’ scale as well on city-wide scales.
From this discussion, I derive a four-fold definition of public space, but one which drops the ownership criterion, and problematizes many of the markers of public space that dominate the urban theory literature.
