May 04, 2005
Public Spaces; Shared Places?
Mono-cultural to Inter-cultural: the networked public domain
Public Spaces; Shared Places? examines how and why public spaces are shared and valued in different ways. Public space as a policy idea has come of age over the past five years. But there’s nothing new about sharing space in cities. By its very nature urbanity has always been an experiment in spatial membership. Contact with others is both part of the appeal of living in cities but also determines how, why and where we move within them. This project starts from the standpoint that public space isn’t something that is simply created on the architect’s drawing board, but develops over time as a result of the interaction of complex social relationships.
The research process will widen the understanding of public space from something that exists in squares and parks, to a prism through which an entire city can be viewed. Rather than selecting specific spaces in a city to study, we seek to uncover the collective spaces that people value and how they are shared.
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Public Spaces; Shared Places? WHY?
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Public Spaces; Shared Places? DIARY
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Public Spaces; Shared Places? OBJECTIVES
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Public Spaces; Shared Places? PLACES
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Public Spaces; Shared Places? PROJECT PEOPLE
[via Gerrit on Smart Mobs]
Posted by jo at May 4, 2005 11:18 AM
