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Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays: Successes and Failures by Nancy Marshall, Jon Lang (Paperback, 2016)

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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.

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis LTD
ISBN-13
9781138959293
eBay Product ID (ePID)
223078049

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Subject Area
Urban Planning
Author
Nancy Marshall, Jon Lang
Publication Name
Urban Squares As Places, Links and Displays: Successes and Failures
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
296 Pages

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246mm
Item Width
189mm
Item Weight
839g

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Nancy Marshall, Jon Lang
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays: Successes and Failures by Nancy Marshall, Jon Lang (Paperback, 2016)

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