A New Index for Public Space

After Distancing

Tali Hatuka, Andrea Mubi Brighenti (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-55583-6 (ISBN)

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This book offers readers a re-evaluation of the notion of publicness as a lens to unpack the complexity of urban space. A ‘new index’ is proposed to reconstitute the promises and the predicaments of public space to better prepare for the contemporary challenges of post-pandemic, conflict-ridden society.

A New Index for Public Space: After Distancing offers readers a re-evaluation of the notion of publicness as a lens to unpack the complexity of urban space. A "new index" is proposed to reconstitute the promises and the predicaments of public space to better prepare for the contemporary challenges of post-pandemic, conflict-ridden society. Part I provides a theoretical introduction to the idea of public space and publicness, laying out the book’s rationale; Part II offers a new index of terms, including affects, alignments, atmosphere, conviviality, diagrams, documenting, flow, and more; and Part III applies the proposed lexicon with a "random walk" approach, inviting the reader to use the lens of nonlinear evolutionary dynamics as a means for envisioning the future of publicness. This book is the outcome of a conversation across disciplines – specifically, urban design and social theory – revolving around the recognition that public space is inherently fragile, messy, conflicted, and evolving. This book will be of interest to urban planners, architects, and urban designers, as well as human geographers, sociologists, political theorists, and those working in community development.

Tali Hatuka is an architect, urban planner, and professor who founded and directs the Laboratory of Contemporary Urban Design in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Andrea Mubi Brighenti is a social theorist and a professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Trento, in Italy.

Part I - Introduction

1. Thinking through Indexes

Part II - The Index

2. Affects

3. Alignments

4. Atmosphere

5. Conviviality

6. Diagrams

7. Documentation

8. Elements

9. Flow

10. Memories

11. Refuge

12. Statements

13. Syncs

Part III - Conclusion

14. Walking through Indexes

Erscheinungsdatum	20.08.2025
Zusatzinfo	22 Line drawings, black and white; 36 Halftones, black and white; 58 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-032-55583-1 / 1032555831
ISBN-13	978-1-032-55583-6 / 9781032555836
Zustand	Neuware