Public space: the management dimension /
In both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and pessimism about the state of urban environments and particulary with the quality of everyday public spaces. Explanations for this have emphasised the poor quality of design that characterises many new public spaces; spaces that are do...
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New York:
Routledge,
2008
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Conceptualising public space and its management
- The use and nature of public space
- Public space through history
- Contemporary debates and public space
- Models of public space management
- 2. Investigating public space management
- One country, multiple endemic public space management problems
- One country, twenty innovative public space management authorities
- Eleven countries, eleven innovative cities: the context for open space management
- Eleveniinovative cities, many ways forward: the practice of open space management
- One iconic civic space: managing Times Square, New York
- Two linked iconic civic spaces: managing Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus, London
- Theory, practice and real people.