{"product_id":"urban-squares-as-places-links-and-displays-9781138959293","title":"Urban Squares as Places Links and Displays","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrban 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 differe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"El libro pasa revista a muchos casos de plazas urbanas significativas en cuanto al diseño y la vida urbana de las ciudades a nivel mundial, como la de San Marcos, en Venecia (2017, pp. 240-244), que puede considerarse para el lector geógrafo, urbanista, arquitecto, ingeniero, etcétera, como una especie de guía para entender el papel de las plazas urbanas hoy e, incluso, para desarrollar posteriores investigaciones en este campo de estudio.\" —Federico Camerin, Investigaciones Geográficas, April 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book reviews many cases of urban squares in terms of design and life of cities around the world, such as the of San Marcos, in Venice, which can be considered for the geographer reader, urban planner, architect, engineer, etc., as a kind of guide to understand the role of urban spaces today, and even to develop further research in this field of study.\" —Federico Camerin, Investigaciones Geográficas, April 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue: The Concern \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Experiencing Public Open Spaces\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Squares as Places, Links and Displays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Sociocultural Considerations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: Types of Urban Squares and their Design \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Public, Quasi-public and Semi-public Squares\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Types based on Instrumental Functions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Types based on Size\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Types based on Degree of Enclosure \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Types based on Configurations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Types based on Internal Designs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Types based on Symbolic Functions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Types based on Design Paradigms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3: Learning from Case Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. A Score of Case Studies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRittenhouse House Square, Philadelphia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSproul Plaza, University of California at Berkeley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaley Park, New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCours Honoréd-Estiennne d’Orves, Marseille \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLa Place des Terreaux, Lyon \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFederation Square, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaternoster Square, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobson Square, Vancouver \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOlympic Plaza, Calgary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrafalgar Square, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Capitol Square, Chandigarh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOxford Square, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePershing Square, Los Angeles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSchouwburgplein, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Guggenheim Museum forecourt, Bilbao\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNorth and South Shanghai Railway Station Squares, Shanghai\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJacob K. Javits Federal Building Plaza, New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGranary Square, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTimes Square, New York \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePiazza San Marco, Venice \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 4: What Works and What Doesn’t Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. The Qualities of Lively Urban Squares\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. The Qualities of Quiet Urban Squares\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577862328663,"sku":"9781138959293","price":52.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138959293.jpg?v=1746096973","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/urban-squares-as-places-links-and-displays-9781138959293","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}