Fourth places : informal social life and interaction in new designed public spaces / Patricia Aelbrecht.
This book challenges current views that public life is in decline and that contemporary urban design trends reliant on privatisation, control, events, and thematic designs are to be blamed. Drawing on detailed and extensive analysis of a case study that illustrates well such urban design trends, it...
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| Language: | English |
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2022.
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| Series: | Urban book series.
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Is public social life in decline and are contemporary masterplanning And public space design practices to be blamed?- Theorisation of informal public social life and interaction in urban public space
- The sociality and spatiality of social encounters among strangers
- Observations on the theorized conditions that support informal social interactions in new designed public spaces
- Observations on the under-theorized conditions that support informal social
- Interactions in new designed public spaces
- Fourth-places: The contemporary public settings for informal social life and Interaction.