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Measuring Public Space: The Star Model

Georgiana Varna (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-54721-6 (ISBN)

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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 approach to analysing public space is tested then on three new public places recently created on the post-industrial waterfront of the River Clyde, in the city of Glasgow, UK. By seeing where and why certain public places fail, direct and informed interventions can be made to improve them, and through this contribute to the building of more attractive and sustainable cities. By adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to shed light on this ’slippery’ concept, this book shows how urban design can complement other disciplines when tackling the complex task of understanding and improving the built environment’s public realm. It also bridges the gap between theory and practice as it draws from empirical research to suggest more quantitative approaches towards auditing and improving public places.

Georgiana Mihaela Varna is a researcher at the Scottish Cities Knowledge Centre, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Contents: Introduction. Part I Conceptualising Publicness: The publicness of public space as a cultural reality: defining a standard for public space; The publicness of public space as a historical reality: understanding the real estate development process. Part II Modelling Publicness: The star model of public space: from theoretical construct to methodological tool. Part III Assessing Publicness: Glasgow's experience of waterfront regeneration and the creation of new public space; How public are Glasgow's public places? A case study of three waterfront sites: Pacific Quay, Glasgow Harbour and Broomielaw; 'A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step'. Annexes; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-138-54721-2 / 1138547212
ISBN-13	978-1-138-54721-6 / 9781138547216
Zustand	Neuware