ABSTRACT

The Companion to Public Space draws together an outstanding multidisciplinary collection of specially commissioned chapters that offer the state of the art in the intellectual discourse, scholarship, research, and principles of understanding in the construction of public space.

Thematically, the volume crosses disciplinary boundaries and traverses territories to address the philosophical, political, legal, planning, design, and management issues in the social construction of public space. The Companion uniquely assembles important voices from diverse fields of philosophy, political science, geography, anthropology, sociology, urban design and planning, architecture, art, and many more, under one cover. It addresses the complete ecology of the topic to expose the interrelated issues, challenges, and opportunities of public space in the twenty-first century.

The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines that converge in the study of public space. The Companion will also be of use to practitioners and public officials who deal with the planning, design, and management of public spaces.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

part 1|65 pages

Perspectives

chapter 1|9 pages

A critique of public space

Between interaction and attraction

chapter 2|11 pages

Researching public space

From place-based to process-oriented approaches and methods

chapter 3|8 pages

The collective outdoors

Memories, desires and becoming local in an era of mobility

chapter 4|11 pages

Appropriation of public space

A dialectical approach in designing publicness

chapter 5|13 pages

Landshape urbanism

The topography of public space

part 2|133 pages

Influences

chapter 7|12 pages

Planetary public space

Scale, context, and politics

chapter 8|9 pages

Public space and the New Urban Agenda

Fostering a human-centered approach for the future of our cities

chapter 12|15 pages

Visibility in public space and socially inclusive cities

A new conceptual tool for urban design and planning

chapter 13|13 pages

(Post?)-colonial parks

Urban public space in Trinidad and Zanzibar

chapter 14|17 pages

Global homogenization of public space?

A comparison of “Western” and “Eastern” contexts

chapter 15|9 pages

Right to the city (at night)

Spectacle and surveillance in public space

chapter 16|13 pages

The strange idea of the public

No, hiroba (広-場) is not public space; so, what?!

part 3|127 pages

Types

chapter 17|12 pages

Types

Descriptive and analytic tools in public space research

chapter 18|13 pages

Public space use

A classification

chapter 19|15 pages

Mapping the publicness of public space

An access/control typology

chapter 20|18 pages

Private, hybrid, and public spaces

Urban design assessment, comparisons, and recommendations

chapter 21|15 pages

Throwntogether spaces

Disassembling ‘urban beaches’

chapter 23|13 pages

Expanding common ground

chapter 24|11 pages

The skyscraper and public space

An uneasy history and the capacity for radical reinvention

chapter 25|12 pages

In pursuit of inclusive spaces?

Memory, monuments, and the politics of public story telling

part 4|93 pages

Actions

chapter 27|12 pages

Public space and the political

Reconnecting urban resistance and urban emancipation 1

chapter 28|8 pages

Alternating narratives

The dynamic between public spaces, protests, and meanings

chapter 30|12 pages

Bridging and bonding

Public space and immigrant integration in Barcelona’s el Raval

chapter 31|9 pages

Public space challenges and possibilities in Latin America

The city’s socio-political dimensions through the lens of everyday life

chapter 32|15 pages

Typologies of the temporary

Constructing public space

chapter 33|12 pages

Bringing public spaces to life

The animation of public space

part 5|86 pages

Futures

chapter 35|9 pages

Renewing the public trust doctrine

A solidarist account of public space

chapter 36|10 pages

Events on urban parkland

Scrutinizing public–private partnerships in parks governance regimes

chapter 40|13 pages

What if?

Forecasting and composing public spaces

chapter 41|14 pages

The idea of the urban commons

Challenges of enclosure, encroachment, and exclusion 1