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Measuring Public Space: The Star Model (Paperback)
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Measuring Public Space: The Star Model (Paperback)
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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.
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