Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays

Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays

EnglishHardback
Lang Jon
Taylor & Francis Ltd
EAN: 9781138959279
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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.

EAN 9781138959279
ISBN 1138959278
Binding Hardback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication date August 29, 2016
Pages 310
Language English
Dimensions 246 x 189
Country United Kingdom
Readership Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Authors Lang Jon; Marshall, Nancy
Illustrations 3 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, color; 162 Halftones, color
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