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Matthew Carmona - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Principles for Public Space design, planning to do better
2019Co-Authors: Matthew CarmonaAbstract:This paper sets out a series of normative principles for planners and others to use when planning for and regulating Public Space design and management. Based on an exhaustive examination of Public Space in London, the substance of which is reported elsewhere, a first section sets out three overarching principles relating to the critical but often missing strategic planning framework for the development and regeneration of Public Spaces. A second and final section sets out seven more detailed considerations for evaluating the quality of Public Space design. This is an unashamedly positive framework for shaping Public Space, based on the notion that Public Spaces in our cities come in many different forms and guises, but collectively add huge value to the experience and potential of urban areas. Consequently, they deserve serious consideration by those with regulatory and other responsibilities for their delivery.
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re theorising contemporary Public Space a new narrative and a new normative
2015Co-Authors: Matthew CarmonaAbstract:The global Public Spaces literature has been critical of contemporary manifestations of Public Space on a number of grounds. This article reports on a research project that attempted to gauge the validity of these critiques through an examination of new and regenerated Public Spaces in London. The article introduces the dominant critiques around Public Space before outlining the mixed-methods approach used to interrogate them. The key findings from this work are summarised before the nature of contemporary Public Space is re-theorised in a more avowedly positive and pragmatic manner than is often the case, one that celebrates a return of a Public Spaces paradigm through tentatively advancing a new narrative and set of normative principles for Public Space generation. The work concludes that a more balanced view of Public Space is required, one that recognises the multiple complex types, roles and audiences for Public Spaces in cities today.
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contemporary Public Space part two classification
2010Co-Authors: Matthew CarmonaAbstract:There are a series of discrete but related critiques of the contemporary Public Space situation, and it was these that the first part of this paper identified and organized. These drew on different scholarly traditions to highlight the key tensions at the heart of the contemporary Public Space debate. It revealed that critiques of Public Space could broadly be placed into two camps: those who argue that Public Space is over-managed, and those who argue that it is under-managed. This second part of the paper begins by arguing that both over and under-management critiques result in the same end, a homogenization of Public Space, although these outcomes may not be as stark as many of the critics would have us believe. What is clear is that the critiques reveal a range of Public Space types and means of classification. These are used in a final section of this paper to suggest a new typology of Public Space, one based on how Public Space is managed.
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contemporary Public Space critique and classification part one critique
2010Co-Authors: Matthew CarmonaAbstract:This two-part paper draws upon different scholarly traditions to highlight the key tensions at the heart of the contemporary Public Space debate. Critiques of Public Space can broadly be placed into two camps, those who argue that Public Space is over-managed, and those who argue that it is under-managed. This over-simplifies a complex discourse on Public Space that this paper aims to unpack, but nevertheless provides a useful lens through which to view the critiques. In fact there are a series of discrete but related critiques of the contemporary Public Space situation, and it is these that the first part of this paper identifies and organizes. In so doing it also reveals a range of Public Space types that are used in the second part of the paper to suggest a new typology of Public Space.
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Public Space the management dimension
2008Co-Authors: Matthew Carmona, Claudio De Magalhaes, Leo HammondAbstract:Part 1: Conceptualising Public Space and its Management 1. The Use and Nature of Public Space 2. Public Space through History 3. Contemporary Debates and Public Space 4. A Typology of Management Approaches Part 2: Investigating Public Space Management 5. Three Studies, Three Related Research Approaches 6. One Country, Multiple Endemic Problems 7. One Country, Twelve Innovative Authorities 8. Eleven Countries, Eleven Innovative Cities 9. Eleven Innovative Cities, Many Ways Forward 10. Two World Cities, Three Iconic Spaces 11. Three Iconic Spaces, Two In-Depth Analyses 12. Debates, Problems and Possible Solutions
Neil M Inroy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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urban regeneration and Public Space the story of an urban park
2000Co-Authors: Neil M InroyAbstract:This paper uses case-study material from a local urban park in Glasgow, Scotland, to reflect on some aspects of the wider politics of culture led urban regeneration in relation to community involvement and participation and its relationship with Public Space. Using case-study material from before, during and after the park's development, it highlights how the initial discursive and policy practices utilised by the city and the park's designer served to create an illusion of collaboration and inclusive Public Space and that the park's development in the long term was starkly revealed to be primarily focused on improving Glasgow's wider image and improving Glasgow's attractiveness to potential inward investors. It will be shown, then, that the inclusive language surrounding culture-led regeneration as regards this urban Public Space was obfuscatory and that the underlying social context and local Public Space needs were undermined by wider economic goals.
Michael G Donovan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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informal cities and the contestation of Public Space the case of bogota s street vendors 1988 2003
2008Co-Authors: Michael G DonovanAbstract:The resurgence of informal street trading poses serious challenges for local officials responsible for the maintenance of Public Space. This article contextualises the tension between Public Space recuperation and informality, providing a detailed case study of BogotAi, Colombia (population 7.6 million). From 1988 to 2003, BogotAi's mayors implemented one of the most ambitious Public Space campaigns in Latin America. The `tipping-points' behind BogotAi's transition are illuminated with emphasis on the introduction of free mayoral elections and the enervation of informal vendor unions. Using a cohort panel design, this research also examines the working conditions and occupational hazards faced by vendors both before and after relocation to government-built markets. It reveals how formalised vendors experienced declining income levels, but improved working conditions. The final section examines Public policy implications and the extent to which BogotAi's experience follows traditional models of Public Space planning in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ash Amin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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collective culture and urban Public Space
2008Co-Authors: Ash AminAbstract:This paper develops a post‐humanist account of urban Public Space. It breaks with a long tradition that has located the culture and politics of Public Spaces such as streets and parks or libraries and town halls in the quality of inter‐personal relations in such Spaces. Instead, it argues that human dynamics in Public Space are centrally influenced by the entanglement and circulation of human and non‐human bodies and matter in general, productive of a material culture that forms a kind of pre‐cognitive template for civic and political behaviour. The paper explores the idea of ‘situated surplus’, manifest in varying dimensions of compliance, as the force that produces a distinctive sense of urban collective culture and civic affirmation in urban life.
Chihsin Chiu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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contestation and conformity street and park skateboarding in new york city Public Space
2009Co-Authors: Chihsin ChiuAbstract:By comparing street skating and park skating, this article examines why skateboarders persist in their use of Public Space even in the face of extensive regulation and the provision of skate parks. The researcher conducted participant observation and interviews in four sites in New York City: Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, Union Square Park, Riverside Skate Park, and Hudson River Skate Park. A total of 16 semistructured interviews were conducted. Differences between street and park skating are presented by utilizing three dimensions: the social production of Public Space, the social control imposed on skaters, and the discursive construction of skateboarding. Street skateboarding represents a contesting spatial practice creating a mental, social, and body Space, embodying a skater's self-identity and cultural expression. Findings suggest that the governance of Public Space needs to adapt to the changing needs of multiple users rather than excluding a few without any attempt at accommodating them.
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contestation and conformity street and park skateboarding in new york city Public Space
2009Co-Authors: Chihsin ChiuAbstract:By comparing street skating and park skating, this article examines why skateboarders persist in their use of Public Space even in the face of extensive regulation and the provision of skate parks....
