Format:
1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 237 p. 135 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2022.
ISBN:
9783031079467
Series Statement:
The Urban Book Series
Content:
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.
Content:
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 shows that informal social life and interaction occur more than its necessary in new master planned environments and new designed public settings, whether public or private owned and/or managed. Furthermore, it reveals the existence of a new category of informal public social settings which it calls fourth places because of their close relationship to Oldenburg’s third places in terms of social and behavioural characteristics – radical departure from the routines of home and work, inclusivity and social comfort – but distinct in terms of activities, locations and spatial conditions – being characterised by spatial, temporal and managerial in-betweenness, i.e. indeterminacy in form, function and times, and a great sense of publicness. The acceptance of these findings problematises well-established urban design theories about master planning, expands existing social theories about the optimal conditions for public social life by empirically and spatially elaborating on them and redefines several spatial concepts for designing public space in relation to the specific dynamics of informal social interaction. More importantly, it brings optimism to urban design practice, offering new insights into designing more lively and inclusive public spaces.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031079450
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031079474
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031079481
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031079450
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031079474
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031079481
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-07946-7
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