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The Management Dimension

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The Management Dimension
Edited ByMatthew Carmona, Claudio de Magalhães, Leo Hammond
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 29 May 2008
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203927229
Pages 240
eBook ISBN 9780203927229
Subjects Built Environment, Geography
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Carmona, M., Magalhães, C.D., & Hammond, L. (Eds.). (2008). Public Space: The Management Dimension (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203927229

ABSTRACT

In both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with the quality of everyday public spaces. Explanations for this have emphasized the poor quality of design that characterizes many new public spaces; spaces that are dominated by parking, roads infrastructure, introspective buildings, a lack of enclosure and a poor sense of place, and which in different ways for different groups are too often exclusionary.

Yet many well designed public spaces have also experienced decline and neglect, as the services and activities upon which the continuing quality of those spaces have been subject to the same constraints and pressures for change as public services in general. These issues touch upon the daily management of public space, that is, the coordination of the many different activities that constantly define and redefine the characteristics and quality of public space.

This book draws on three empirical projects to examine the questions of public space management on an international stage. They are set within a context of theoretical debates about public space, its history, contemporary patterns of use and changing nature in western society, and about the new management approaches that are increasingly being adopted.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

Part One: Conceptualising public space and its management

chapter 1|20 pages

The use and nature of public space

chapter 2|20 pages

Public space through history

chapter 3|22 pages

Contemporary debates and public space

chapter 4|16 pages

Models of public space management

part |2 pages

Part Two: Investigating public space management

chapter 5|16 pages

One country, multiple endemic public space management problems

chapter 6|20 pages

One country, twenty innovative public space management authorities

chapter 7|16 pages

Eleven countries, eleven innovative cities: The context for open space management

chapter 8|24 pages

Eleven innovative cities, many ways forward: The practice of open space management

chapter 9|20 pages

One iconic civic space: Managing Times Square, New York

chapter 10|20 pages

Two linked iconic civic spaces: Managing Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus, London

chapter 11|16 pages

Theory, practice and real people

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