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Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays - Successes and Failures (Paperback)
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Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays - Successes and Failures (Paperback)
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To attract investment and tourists and to enhance the quality of
life of their citizens, municipal authorities are paying
considerable attention to the quality of the public domain of their
cities - including their urban squares. Politicians find them good
places for rallies. Children consider squares to be playgrounds,
the elderly as places to catch-up with each other, and for many
others squares are simply a place to pause for a moment. Urban
Squares as Places, Links and Displays: Successes and Failures
discusses how people experience squares and the nature of the
people who use them. It presents a 'typology of squares' based on
the dimensions of ownership, the square's instrumental functions,
and a series of their basic physical attributes including size,
degree of enclosure, configuration and organization of the space
within them and finally based on their aesthetic attributes - their
meanings. Twenty case studies illustrate what works and what does
not work in different cities around the world. It discusses the
qualities of lively squares and quieter, more restorative places as
well as what contributes to making urban squares less desirable as
destinations for the general public. The book closes with the
policy implications, stressing the importance and difficulties of
designing good public places. Urban Squares offers how-to guidance
along with a strong theoretical framework making it ideal for
architects, city planners and landscape architects working on the
design and upgrade of squares.
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