ABSTRACT
Although ‘industrial city’ is understood as the result of urban expansion and city reorganisation related to industrial production models, the first use of the term “industrial city” was made by Tony Garnier in 1905. The transition from what people call ‘industrial city’ to a diverse set of urban realities people live in today, should adopt a great variety of scales of urban-space production in what is called ‘post-industrial urban metropolis’. The diversity of urban fabrics and related problems is also translated to the production of public spaces: “What is clear is that contemporary trends in public space design and management are resulting in increasingly complex range of public space types”. Although public investment in and public attention to urban design projects grew much in recent years, much attention still focuses on isolated examples often lacking connectivity or integration so as to gain real meaning as urban systems, and to provide more return on social and economic values thus ensuring sustainability.
