Measuring Public Space
In the rapidly expanding public space debate of the past few years, a recurring theme is the 'loss of publicness' of contemporary urban public places. This book takes up the challenge to find an objective way to prove or disprove this phenomenon. By taking the reader through a systematic and multi-disciplinary literature review it asks the deceptively simple question: 'What is publicness?' It answers this by first developing a new theoretical approach - 'The dual nature of public space', and se…
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- Full title :Measuring Public Space.
Summary
In the rapidly expanding public space debate of the past few years, a recurring theme is the 'loss of publicness' of contemporary urban public places. This book takes up the challenge to find an objective way to prove or disprove this phenomenon. By taking the reader through a systematic and multi-disciplinary literature review it asks the deceptively simple question: 'What is publicness?' It answers this by first developing a new theoretical approach - 'The dual nature of public space', and secondly a new analytical tool for measuring it - 'The Star Model of Publicness'. This pragmatic approa.
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- Publication Date:2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate Publishing
- Place of Publication:Milton
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (296 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781409467458, 1409467457
- oclc:on1027203999
- Dewey Decimal:307.76
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