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Hilliard, William. "Stockholm's Public Libraries: Essential Public Spaces." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298443.
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Public libraries are too often overlooked within the planning field. They reflect the cities in which they are situated and reveal the complex societal processes that take place there. Neoliberalism directly impacts the function of the public library and, as a result of leaving urban dwellers with fewer and fewer public alternatives, multiplies and modifies the demands made of it. Through semi structured interviews with professionals within the Stockholm library system, this research contributes to the planning field’s understanding of the public library as a public space and explores the way it is perceived as social, inclusive, and democratic. The interviews are analysed through a conceptual framework that combines literature from the field of urban planning with that of the library and information sciences, drawing additionally on variegated concepts of neoliberalism. The results suggest that the public library is considered by those professionally involved to be an inclusive and multicultural meeting place, which, with the support of librarians, promotes democratic principles through the largely expectation-free welcoming of patrons. Further analysis reveals neoliberal processes to be considered a threat to these characteristics and that this, alongside issues of equality and inclusivity, charges the library as a political space. The research posits the public library an indicator of wider societal processes and encourages planners, as well as other civic practitioners, to better exploit its underutilised informative and practical potential.
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Tran, Tuan. "Public spaces as destinations." This title; PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Yoo, Seungyeon. "Fear in public spaces." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5591.
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SUMMARY The project Fear in Public Spaces investigates and highlights emotions of possible crime in urban context. In cities nowadays there are many public spaces with anonymous people around you. The word public might be equated with risky. Also, I have a personal experience with crime in public spaces when a man was watching me over a toilet cubicle wall a few years ago. In my individual view, I feel insecure in many public spaces after that experience. My research is based on the analysis of sequences and details of spaces where I feel anxious. I identified three such places, a toilet cubicle, in front of a subway station ticket machine and the space under a bridge. The goal is to make people aware about possible crimes in a joyful way. As I bring out my fear in a humoristic way, my fear can affect someone like me, but also the humoristic part can give positive affect to people who enjoy public spaces. As an Interior Architect, I explore how public spaces affect us derived from emotions and human behavior. I create spaces by describing crime to the public. Using symbols, text and artwork, I interact with your emotions and behavior. How you react to the project depends on you and your experiences.
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Mangle, Tejali M. "Method of Evaluating Urban Public Spaces." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554374121848978.
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Valentine, Anthony G. "Transforming public spaces through performance." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001207.
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El, Haddad Marie. "Barcelona: Small-Scale Public Spaces." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/455143.
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Small-scale public spaces form an essential part of Barcelona’s urban development. During the beginning of the democratic era, Oriol Bohigas began the reconstruction of the city by creating small-scale public spaces of quality with the purpose of “higienizar el centro y monumentalizar la periferia”. They were applied in all the districts of Barcelona, with the intent of compensating for the loss of open spaces and segregation caused during the dictatorship. Thus, the city gained a series of small public spaces that recovered its urban fabric and provided a better quality of life and coexistence.
The means of creating these small-scale public spaces is through the ‘esponjamiento’ of the urban fabric, that involved a selective destruction of specific deteriorated sites and the redevelopment of residual spaces.
The study of the historic framework of these operations in Barcelona demonstrates that the creation of small public spaces through ‘esponjamiento’ is attributed to the GATCPAC’s sanitation plan for the old town, and the interventions of Adolf Florensa in the city.
This method originated from the concerns of urban hygiene in the 19th century. European industrial cities were suffering from epidemics, overpopulation and insalubrity, and the first measures of urban hygiene were through the ‘eventrement’ of the city, opening it up with large straight axes that crossed though its urban fabric eliminating everything in their path.
In Barcelona, the first initiative was by tearing down its walls and expanding into the Plain. Ildefons Cerdà drafted his expansion plan focusing a great deal on hygiene and ventilation and provided the blocks in his grid with small-scale interior courtyards.
As for the old town, early measures were taken through the ‘eventrement’ of the old fabric initially proposed by Cerdà and later redeveloped by Àngel Baixeras. Thus, began the opening of the Via Laietana that resulted in the loss of large amounts of historic and monumental buildings.
From that moment, the creation of small-scale public spaces through ‘esponjamiento’ was born as an alternative solution to large-scale demolitions and expropriations. And thanks to this procedure Barcelona gained a network of small-scale public spaces that still play an important role in our present day.Los espacios públicos de pequeña escala forman una parte esencial del desarrollo urbano de Barcelona. Al inicio de la era democrática, Oriol Bohigas empezó la reconstrucción de la ciudad creando espacios públicos de pequeña escala pero de gran calidad con el objetivo de “higienizar el centro y monumentalizar la periferia”. Estas intervenciones tuvieron lugar en todos los distritos de Barcelona, intentando así compensar la pérdida de espacios abiertos y la segregación causada durante la dictadura. De esa forma, la ciudad ganó una serie de espacios públicos de pequeña escala que contribuyeron a recuperar el tejido urbano y mejoraron la calidad de vida y la coexistencia. El medio para crear dichos espacios públicos de pequeña escala es el “esponjamiento” del tejido urbano, que implicaba una selección destructiva de zonas específicas deterioradas así como del desarrollo de espacios residuales. El estudio del marco histórico de estas operaciones en Barcelona demuestra que la creación de espacios públicos de pequeña escala a través del “esponjamiento” es atribuido al plan de higiene para la ciudad vieja de GATPAC y a las intervenciones de Adolfo Florensa en la ciduad. Este método tuvo su origen en la preocupación por la higiene urbana del siglo XIX. Las ciudades industriales europeas sufrían de epidemias, sobrepoblación e insalubridad general, Las primeras medidas de higiene urbana se llevaron a cabo a través del “eventrement” de la ciudad, abriendo largos ejes rectos que cruzaban el tejido urbano eliminando todo a su paso. En Barcelona, la primera iniciativa implicó la destrucción de las murallas y la extensión hacia el Llano. Ildefons Cerdà esbozó su plan de expansión centrándose en gran parte en la higiene y la ventilación y equipando los diferentes bloques de jardines interiores de pequeña escala. Con respecto a la ciudad vieja, se tomaron una serie de medidas iniciales mediante el “eventrement” del tejido antiguo propuesto inicialmente por Cerdà y luego reedificado por Àngel Baixeras. De esta forma, se empezó con la apertura de la Via Laietana que resultó en la pérdida de grandes cantidades de edificios históricos y monumentales. Desde ese momento, la creación de espacios públicos de pequeña escala mediante el “esponjamiento” se constituyó como una solución alternativa a las demoliciones y expropiaciones a gran escala. Y gracias a este proceso, Barcelona ganó una red de espacios públicos de pequeña escala que todavía juegan un rol importante a día de hoy.
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Mani, Sanaz. "Mobile technologies and public spaces." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/618.
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Mobile technologies are the latest technologies in the realm of communication media. They have the potential to flatten the world by making it a place where gender, age, class, race and nationality can no longer hold us back from being heard and being informed. We have learned that these technologies can help to liberate and empower us, and they can lead to a collective cognition as much as they can distract us from what we need to know about the world we live in. In Greece thousands of years ago, a selected number of Greeks had a public space called the Agora to discuss the issues that concerned the public, meaning each and every citizen. They were the first to be able to create the space and place were the word “democracy” could be brought into language; the very word that was used to start a new war in the era of a communication revolution in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. There are still issues that concern the public today such as wars, global warming, homelessness or human rights which are all matters of our collective cognition. However, today in an age of information revolution the public life of people and their collective cognition is being exercised mostly in the virtual spaces of the Internet. Simultaneously, some physical spaces are being abandoned by people.
This thesis investigates the possibility of having physical public spaces that are enriched with communication media and not weakened by it. If architects rethink their designs based on a new understanding of the networked society it might be possible to turn this “networked individualism” into a networked collectivism. However, most designed public spaces fail to offer new possibilities that can transform space for the new generation of users. Here, the aim is to understand a new generation of users. Who have they become as a result of new communication media? And how can architects design in a way that responds to this new subject in architecture?
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Johnson, Bryce Wade. "Socioeconomic Diversity in Public Spaces." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83517.
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While academics and policy-makers seek to address historic segregation and its harmful impacts on communities, many such efforts have been unsuccessful. Therefore, this original research examines the role of public parks as potential sites of social and economic integration. These spaces serve as third places, or social spaces where community members regularly visit, similar to their regular visitation of their home and workplaces. In the City of Roanoke, three visited public parks serve as local third places where individuals of different social and economic backgrounds visit for various activities. However, visitors typically only interact with others similar to themselves. The exception appears to be when the third place provides a source of triangulation based in common interests. This form of triangulation is useful in establishing commonality among visitors, thus bridging existing gaps between communities. Said triangulation is successful when the third place provides a physically and socially comfortable environment affected by the space's design, location, and management. These three factors must combine to maintain a careful balance between welcoming visitors of diverse backgrounds, but also establishing a sense of comfort among visitors. Public spaces which achieve this balance realize their potential by becoming equitable third places.Master of Urban and Regional Planning
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Vargas, Ana Cristina S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Tracing public space : a participatory approach to transform public spaces in low-income communities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91418.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Vita.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135).
Rapid urban growth has challenged our traditional planning methods. It has been a driver for the increase of overcrowded informal settlements in major cities of the developing world, which shelter one third of the world population. Lack of infrastructure, open spaces, and unsafe structures challenge the livelihoods of their citizens. Consequently, over the last fifty years, governments have addressed this issue in different ways, from eradicating informal settlements and building new housing, to retrofitting the existing conditions with infrastructure and public spaces through slum rehabilitation. Accepting the idea of working with existing developments to improve the status quo, architects, planners, artists and activists in general have relied on participatory planning and community engagement to improve urban conditions by addressing underlying local needs through small-scale interventions. This thesis introduces a new methodology to study, create awareness and inspire future leaders, children, to take action to transform public spaces in high-density informal settlements. It proposes a multi scalar bottom-up analysis, with innovative tools of representation and design to address the challenges of community public spaces. The 'Tracing Public Space' method has been developed through fieldwork in India, Venezuela and the USA. The method is based in observation, representation and design using a 'toolkit' that enables a two-way learning process between the designer as an 'outsider' and children as 'insiders'. The thesis is focused on fieldwork done in the Malvani Transit Camp in Mumbai where over forty years of informal and permanent growth the existence of open shared courtyards is threatened. These small-scale open spaces are crucial for communities, and particularly for the women and children who are their main users. Tracing Public Space becomes a vehicle to sensitize the community to protect courtyards from encroachments and promote an inclusive and adaptive use of shared space.
by Ana Cristina Vargas.
S.M.
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Gradinar, Adrian Ioan. "Designing interactive objects and spaces for the digital public space." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2018. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/126620/.
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The Internet is evolving, both in form and function, at a rate which is becoming increasingly difficult to match. Through constructs such as The Internet of Things, our consumption of digital information and knowledge is slowly moving away from being primarily consumed through screens to one in which we are generators of data by interacting with the objects and spaces which surrounds us. Thus, the Internet is no longer a space we visit but rather the space we live in and experience in our daily lives. The Digital Public Space, a concept based on the democratisation of privately held knowledge, is intrinsically connected to the notions of Internet, especially around its delivery and reach. Whilst the two are arguably separated by different social and political motivational aspirations as the internet evolves so must our consideration of the Digital Public Space. The AHRC Creative Exchange research project was set to explore the myriad of potentials of the Digital Public Space from understanding, facilitation and creation of digital public spaces to privacy and ethical concerns. I approached this space by considering how our own physicality means that there will always be a tangible aspect to the consumption and production of digital information; a duality in existence which needs to be understood in order to design better experiences. In particular, I am concerned with the characteristics and particularities around the creation processes involved in the design of mixed-reality objects and spaces which might contribute to the Digital Public Space in the context imposed by the juxtaposition of the digital and the physical worlds. Therefore, this research presents the methodological framework required for the understanding of such design processes with a clear focus on the interactions and affordances mixed-reality artefacts make use of in their designs. Through the exploration of five different research projects, resulting from collaborative design-led research, conducted in close partnership between academia and the creative industries, I extract, rationalise and present ideas, individually, in order to present research insights for the design and construction of mixed-reality artefacts. The key aspects of which are summarised in a set of guidelines, taking the shape of a manifesto, to serve prospective designers in the production of mixed-reality artefacts.
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Van, den Heever Annemie. "Field public space infrastructure." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02162007-161618.
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Too, Wing-tak Ken. "A study of private/public space in Hong Kong /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38725022.
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Lis, Kimberly. "Consuming spaces." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Chen, Kuangfan. "Playable digital intervention in public spaces: Opportunities for engaging young office workers with public space." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/213474/1/Kuangfan_Chen_Thesis.pdf.
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This project explores the potential of playful digital placemaking. The focus of the research is enquiring the concept of pleasure, deriving from the field of digital interaction and game design, applied to research into future urban design. Through qualitative and quantitative research in the context of Guiyang, China, the project has established different typologies of intervention, informed by a new design-led model for Playable digital intervention in public space.
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Hung, Ting-wai David. "Enlivening Hong Kong's public open space an analytical study on public open spaces in Hong Kong's urban core /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41651327.
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Costa, Mary-Anne da. "Surfaces and services : a public space for information, communication and discussion." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd11212007-100102.
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Bergman, Oscar. "Public spaces and socially sustainable lighting." Thesis, KTH, Ljusdesign, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280061.
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We are living in a changing time where a living democracy and sustainable development is more important than ever. Factors such as urbanization, technological development and migration is creating new needs for us as a society which has to be considered when designing for a sustainable future. The Swedish policy ”Politik för gestaltad livsmiljö” (Policy for a designed urban environment), is suggesting a new way to work with sustainability, design and architecture in our urban environment. The policy is mentioning a lot of factors that should be considered in the design of a socially sustainable urban environment but it is lacking a clear guidance on how to achieve it. For lighting designers it might be hard to know how to work consciously with these factors. The different factors needs to be put in to a lighting design context to bring clearness to the matter. This thesis had the intention to summarize the new policy and create guidelines regarding socially sustainable lighting design of public spaces. These guidelines was then implemented in a project with a client where the aim was to create a social sustainable lighting design for the shopping center ”Valbo Köpcentrum” right outside the Swedish city of Gävle.
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Kamkarian, Pejman. "Crowd Evacuation for Indoor Public Spaces." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1964658581&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Carr, John Newman. "The political grind : the role of youth identities in the municipal politics of public space /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5614.
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Wong, Shan-shan Amy. "Public life resurrection in Wong Tai Sin." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31987333.
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Wong, Wing-kit Franz. "[Re]Public space in Yau Ma Tei." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25945890.
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Zanotto, Juliana M. "Public Spaces, Homelessness, and Neo-Liberal Urbanism: A Study of 'Anti-Homeless' Strategies on Redeveloped Public Spaces." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342104311.
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Cowley, Robert. "Eco-cities : technological showcases or public spaces?" Thesis, University of Westminster, 2016. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/9w780/eco-cities-technological-showcases-or-public-spaces.
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A growing body of critical literature seeks to identify conceptual and practical problems accompanying the realisation of mainstream ‘eco-city’ initiatives around the world. However, little attention has been paid to the status of the ‘city’ itself within the broader discourse. If eco-cities are to be more than experimental ‘technological showcases’, and aim to transform urban life more generally, the question of what types of ‘cityness’ will ensue is of considerable importance. To effect a more significant sustainability transition, eco-city plans and policies may need somehow to encompass a more nuanced conceptualisation of cities as complex, unpredictable, and emergent spaces. The incompatibility of such a conceptualisation with liberal-modernist modes of planning means that radically innovative new approaches to eco-city development may need to be found. This thesis considers whether the eco-city, theorised as a multiple process of real-world experimentation, may shed some light on how ‘cityness’ might better be planned for in future. To do so, it conceptualises cityness through the lens of ‘publicness’. It makes an original contribution to knowledge by developing a new theoretical model of publicness as an ‘assemblage’ of space and behaviour, with an ‘emergent’ and ‘civic’ modality. It thereby extends recent debates over the idea of ‘urban assemblage’, and makes innovative links between theories of planning and of the public. This model informs the analysis of original empirical research, investigating the conceptualisation of the public in an international sample of official eco-city documents, and exploring the publicness of two implemented initiatives, in Portland, Oregon (US) and newly built Sejong City (South Korea). The research finds that publicness tends to be poorly articulated in mainstream eco-city plans and policies, with potentially negative implications for sustainability in the ‘urban age’. However, it also argues that state institution-led planning – even when experimental ‘governance’ approaches are adopted – may inevitably be limited in its ability to encompass the emergent public life of the city. The thesis concludes by considering the prospects for overcoming or more productively acknowledging these limits in future.
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Bjornstad, Jensen Arne. "Reprogramming public space." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03132007-180909.
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Ngai, Pui-yan. "Slow space for musing." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31987242.
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Hung, Pun Herbert. "Urban [space] regeneration in Tsim Sha Tsui East." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2594714x.
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Lai, On-ki Angel. "Coaxial nexus on traditional Chinese interests : birds, flowers and goldfish /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25952961.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001.Includes special study report entitled: Corner building : a structure with a roof and walls that locates at the places where two streets meet. Includes bibliographical references.
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洪定維 and Ting-wai David Hung. "Enlivening Hong Kong's public open space: an analytical study on public open spaces in Hong Kong's urban core." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41651327.
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Peiris, T. D. H. "Public places in and around buildings and its impact on physical setting." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25799733.
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Molina, Jennifer Rose. "Public spaces or private places? Outdoor Advertising and the Commercialisation of Public Space in Christchurch, New Zealand." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Political Science and Communication, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/935.
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This thesis examines the impact of outdoor advertising on public space, by situating outdoor advertising within arguments about global corporate domination. I argue that the implosion of commercial messages into ever-increasing amounts of public space has repercussions for our ability to relate to each other as anything other than commercial beings. Outdoor advertising necessitates the use of stereotypes to communicate with its audience. The regulatory mechanisms for advertising sanction this use of stereotypes, which puts commercial needs and rights to free speech before the public's right to distance itself from commercial messages and values. The discourses of advertising and its progenitors reinforce hegemonic conceptions of gender, class and ethnicity thereby imbuing space with values which do not encourage diversity but promote narrow and limiting options for the self. By carefully examining the 'entrepreneurial adexec' and 'public interest' discourses that surround outdoor advertising, I argue that its global privatising power has been able to continue without challenge, as potential criticisms are silenced before they are even articulated. It will be shown how the various regulatory mechanisms operating under discourses of 'public accountability' actually serve commercial interests rather than public interests by supporting private-public partnerships and focussing narrowly on the implicit meaning in ads. Particularly problematic representations of gender, class and ethnicity in outdoor ads will be analysed to discern the various ways these impose certain values on public spaces in Christchurch through the process of commercialisation. Finally, graffiti and billboard liberation as forms of cultural resistance to this commercialisation will be examined.
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Papadaki, Elena. "Curating screens : art, performance and public spaces." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2014. http://research.gold.ac.uk/11255/.
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Based on theoretical research (for example Fried 1967; Krauss 1979; Graham & Cook 2010; Mondloch 2010; Trodd 2011) and five distinctive art case studies (Videographies: The Early Decades [2005], China Power Station: Part I [2006]), performance ( ... some trace of her [2008]) and public spaces (Under Scan [2008] and Temenos 2012 [2012]) this thesis traces the interrelation between curating, institutions and exhibition practices through screen-based works, specifically using the term to denote screen media in physical space and within an arts context. The field of curatorship in relation to the above is foregrounded, paradigm shifts explored, and changing relationships between audience and display examined. In the five case studies, the curator is respectively a member of the permanent museum staff, a theatre director in collaboration with a video artist, an artist in collaboration with a team of assistants and technicians, and a filmmaker who re-enacts the vision he shared with his long-term partner. I argue that the role of the curator has moved away from being the solely the keeper of a museum to a more complex range of public activities and promotions just as screen media operates within an interdisciplinary field of practices. The thesis claims that the different spaces in which screen-based habitus operates need to be renegotiated. Blurring the boundaries between disciplines, I provide a conceptual framework and a rationale for analysing how screens can be curated by emphasising the challenges that arise when screens are no longer contained within a museum space. New juxtapositions between work, audience, and context emerge, which I question and place under scrutiny.
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Pan, Liang. "Urban street as public space : alternative design of large residential areas to encompass new urban streets case studies related to Shenzhen, PRC /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25799332.
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Petrova, Denitsa. "Public Art 2.0 : developing shared platforms for creativity in public spaces." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25670.
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This research explores parallels, connections and synergies between public art, artistic practice beyond the gallery context, and Web 2.0, the Internet platform for user‐ generated content, online communication medium and host for web-based communities. I look at the impact, actual and potential, of Web 2.0 on the ways in which public art is made. Through Web 2.0 a different set of criteria and methods can be established in order to re-examine the practice of art. What can public art learn from Web 2.0? What are the possible debates that Web 2.0 can provoke in the field of public art? What novel forms of audience engagement with, and participation in, public art could be inspired by the practices of co-creation and sharing integral to Web 2.0? Has the relationship between artists and audience changed because of Web 2.0? Web 2.0 prompts us to reconsider the ways in which public art is produced. In my approach I take into consideration that Web 2.0 is useful in expanding the possibilities of public art by providing a unique opportunity for shared creativity in the public space. I call this field Public Art 2.0. This study considers the attributes of Web 2.0 as a methodological framework for public art. It offers a reconsideration of the understanding of the contentious issues surrounding the practice using Web 2.0 as a platform of shared creativity. To validate this argument further, this research investigates two case studies: the Big Art Mob (2006) and the Bubble Project (2002). Both initiatives represent an area where public art and Web 2.0 intersect. This thesis includes a report of findings from qualitative interviews with members of both projects. Public Art 2.0 is a hybrid type of practice that borrows from the digital world and applies the principles of Web 2.0 in the physical space. Public Art 2.0 is a creative space where changes are welcomed at any time. Public Art 2.0 is open source — a process of creation, encouraging multi-authorship and shared creativity. Public Art 2.0 is viral — it can be replicated and re-presented many times by anyone that wishes to do so. Public Art 2.0 is a platform that anyone can build upon and a process that enhances the ability to create together.
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Chong, Lugon Daniela. "Dispossessing the public : privatization of open public spaces in Lima, Peru." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129022.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, September, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-78).
The Metropolitan Area of Lima has on average 3.6m² of green area per person, for a total of 10 million inhabitants. Although this is not the most accurate metric, it is the most available proxy to measure and understand the magnitude of open public space in the city. In addition, it is not equitably distributed: districts with higher socioeconomic levels and larger municipal budgets have greater area and higher quality public spaces. In a context of inequitable distribution on quantity and quality, one of the biggest threats that public spaces face is their privatization, a process in which a space is dispossessed from the public and transformed for a private or restricted use.
From sidewalks, streets, parks, and plazas, to natural spaces such as beaches and the coastal lomas natural ecosystems, in recent years, these unprotected areas have become shopping centers, supermarkets, parking lots, private clubs, formal and informal housing, amusement parks, synthetic grass courts, and other infrastructure that has altered at some degree its openness, ownership, accessibility, and function. This shift from public to private spaces ultimately reduces the opportunity of all citizens to have available open public spaces, increases social fragmentation, and ultimately deepens issues of social injustice and spatial inequalities. In such a scenario, this thesis examines the conditions under which open public spaces are privatized and identifies the mechanisms.
Through different case studies and interviews, I create three types that attempt to explain the different forms in which privatization develops to expose the motivations behind it, the processes of how it happens, the actors who are involved, and the manifestations it has in the built environment. The first type is Concession for Development, and takes place when public space is rented to private entities in the form of concessions with the excuse of bringing development and improvement. The second is Appropriation for Livelihood, and occurs when public space is informally appropriated to fulfill a basic need such as housing or a productive activity. The third is Enclosure for Control, and results when public space is enclosed and its access is restricted in order to provide safety or facilitate its management. I analyze and expose the structural governance conditions and flaws in current planning processes -- formal and informal, top-down and bottom-up --
that lead to privatization in order to help create awareness about how and why this invisible phenomenon takes place and who is most affected by it. Finally, this thesis proposes recommendations that can help Lima and other Peruvian cities promote the protection and preservation of public spaces and also encourage a more equitable distribution.
by Daniela Chong Lugon.
M.C.P.
M.C.P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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Yen, Vincent Leung-Mon. "Public space in contemporary Shanghai creating a typology for the megalopolis /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium access full-text, 2007. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?MR34897.
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Spina, Danton Christopher. "Confused Spaces: Theatricality as a device for defining different types of public space." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2013. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1136.
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Confused Spaces has come to the conclusion that theatricality can be a device for defining different types of public space. This book aims to define theatricality in architectural terms by taking principles from the disciplines of theater and urban design. It limits the scope of the definition to a specific set of elements of theatricality that include spectacle, transition, flexibility, and compactability. After attempting to define why these elements of theatricality are valid architectural concepts, the text then pushes to understand the experience that these elements can create. Through the use of historical and contemporary references, an argument for theatricality can already be found to exist but simply has not been clearly defined. The best methods of studying the design concepts are initially discussed. It is believed that in addition to a thorough case study of an existing structure which practices theatricality, the best way to explain the concepts of the idea as well as analyze them would be through several design attempts. Architectural competitions become the venue for experimentation. Three competition entries are submitted that attempt to implement theatricality. One more competition is created and results in an exhibition of the entries as well as an installation which can be studied and analyzed in a physical space. By using principles distilled from all the preceding research and design analysis, a theoretical large-scale design is explored. The design combines significant site data with all the design principles defended in the text up to this point. The design becomes the most complete visual representation of the core concept for theatricality. In conclusion, it is determined that the principles of theatricality clearly have a significant impact on the public and the pedestrian experience. It is encouraged for the concept to be used as a design device for creating pedestrian-friendly spaces in the future.
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Van, der Westhuizen Liani. "Infill, reconfiguring public space." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2000. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05182005-112331.
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Too, Wing-tak Ken, and 杜永德. "A study of private/public space in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45015697.
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Vesna, Victoria. "Networked public spaces : an investigation into virtual embodiment." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2000. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/networked-public-spaces(e64f64d6-be3f-41fb-bab5-6453de03684f).html.
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Networked Public Spaces: An Investigation into Virtual Embodiment is an exploration of issues surrounding networked public spaces in relation to three artworks created by the author between 1995 to 2000: Virtual Concrete, (1995); Bodies© Incorporated (1996-2000); and Datamining Bodies (initiated in 2000). All three works have several key things in common: each exists on the Internet; each is conceptually connected to the idea of online identity and virtual embodiment, and each required extensive research to inform and inspire the creative practice. The projects are presented within three main sections, each of which attempts to link personal experience and history to a larger cultural context within which the works were produced. The first section, "Breaking with Tradition," provides an overview of historical events that have influenced the changing relationship between artist and audience and argues that the foundations for networked art were laid largely by conceptual artists working during the 1960s and 1970s. The second section, "Distributed Identity," examines the emergence of identity in online public spaces, focusing specifically on issues surrounding the appropriation and use of the term "avatar," and the current cultural preoccupation with databasing and archiving. The third and final section, "Visualizing the Invisible," explores the various efforts to map cyberspace, particularly paying attention to the implicit intersection of network data visualisations and biological systems, and the popular trend toward developing more "intelligent" networks through use of autonomous agents.
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abdulkarim, dina. "The Restorative Effects of Livable Spaces." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338328457.
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Hindi, Nadine. "On the making of public spaces in Beirut." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/309135.
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This research tackles the public spaces in the framework of Beirut’s mosaic history, whereby the Middle East constitutes the background and not the context. It will first identify the public spaces by shedding light on their genesis and tracking their evolution in relation to the city’s urban history. The approach on public spaces history is multi-faceted and interpreted based on a parallelism between the urban morphology, the functional aspect, social practice, and political condition. In the same way, the significance of public spaces is tackled as an intrinsic dimension transcending their physical existence, embodied in history and memory, thus their possible cohesion in the future city plans.
Following the study of the relation of public spaces to the urban history, a closer look will be based on the two case studies of Martyr Square and the Waterfront’s transformation across time. The research followed a dual scale reading of the public spaces; a general overview was followed by a closer perspective on the case studies. This bi-fold display highlighted all the complex aspect of the public spaces in their continuities and discontinuities within the city model.
The question on public spaces arises in the aftermath of the reconstruction following the civil war years. In a socially and physically traumatized city, studying public spaces will set a reference for the future interventions.
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Jagiello, Jolanta. "An entrepreneurial strategy for curating in public spaces." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2014. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/13764/.
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Izadi, Shahram. "Public interactive surfaces for communal ubiquitous computing spaces." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416412.
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Yan, Chengyuan. "Mobile robot control and navigation in public spaces." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100345.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-73).
Public service robots have been more and more popular due to their social and economical influences. This thesis investigated two issues about control and navigation of public service robots deployed in crowded environments such as airports and shopping malls. Our solutions facilitates the synergy of a distributed sensor network and a central computer. A distributed sensor network provides multi-view measurements without occlusion, and a central computer can use these data to estimate the state of everything in the environment in real-time. A public service robot should have human-like mobility, but a wheeled robot is vulnerable to fall when it transits to escalators/moving walkways that are commonly seen in public places. A compliant coupler is inserted between the wheel and the drive motor, which could block instantaneous impacts during the transition. A feedback control is designed to improve the transmission system's damping and regulate the robot's ground speed. A simulated robot was able to transit between ground and moving walkways smoothly using the series elastic transmission and unified velocity control. To help a public service robot reach its destination efficiently without causing much annoyance to nearby humans, we developed a three-layer hierarchical path planner. Every layer plans at a different temporal and spatial scale, and the plans are refined as they are passed from top level to the bottom level. The intermediate level planner bridges global path optimality and local path optimality, and is discussed in detail. Using a fluid analogy, the medium planner treats individual passengers as fluid particles, and tries to find a path so that the total pressure received is minimized. Navigation maps are introduced as an augmentation to navigation functions, which indicate the shortest path towards goal to a robot. Using a finite-horizon optimization, the medium planner can react to the dynamic crowd promptly. Simulations show that the planner is able to plan appropriate paths in many different scenarios.
by Chengyuan Yan.
S.M.
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Helgason, Ingi. "Complex pleasures : designing optional interactions for public spaces." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2017. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1022893.
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This research aims to contribute to knowledge about the design of interactive systems sited in public spaces. In particular, the study concerns "optional interactions" where systems invite interaction from passers-by. These systems are action-orientated ratherthan goal-oriented, are designed to encourage engagement, and offer positive and rewarding experiences through the activity of interaction. This is in contrast to systems that provide functional services that are actively sought out by people, such as ticketvending machines or cash dispensers. This thesis asserts that this kind of optimal, designed experience can be examined and understood through comparisons with approaches taken by new-media artists working in interactive, technological media. Artists have different priorities, and use different methods to those employed by Human-Computer Interaction researchers, and this study aims to further understanding of the potential of these artistic approaches for interaction designers. The setting for these optional interaction systems is any public or semi-public environment, including museums, galleries, shopping centres, foyers and urban settings. As well as understanding the public and social context of these interactions, the experiential aspects of interaction are of primary importance in this study. The work is conducted with the aim of providing practical and theoretical resources to interaction designers tasked with creating engaging interactive systems that initiate and sustain experiences that are highly regarded by the participant. The thesis presents a designframework titled the Optional Interactions Design Framework.
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Atmakur, Sruthi. "Research in Public Spaces: Safety and Human Behavior." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31258.
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This thesis is a study of public spaces with a focus on personal safety and human behavior in public spaces. It establishes literature in the realm of public spaces, safety standards, and behavioral research and aims to identify common ground or conflicts between people behavior in public spaces and safety standards of public spaces. Research is supported through detailed on-site analysis and various techniques of behavioral research of two plazas in a campus setting.
The first part of the research focuses on literature to understand origin of public space, importance of safety, and evolution of safety standards in the context of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). The later part of this thesis is based on preliminary site investigations, which help in identifying two public plazas on the Virginia Tech campus to provide a platform to conduct research and help identify common grounds or conflicts between safety standards and human behavior. The research also aims to help revise techniques of safety evaluation of public spaces, based on human
needs and behavior. The research is primarily qualitative in nature supported with a concise quantitative data analysis to ascertain participant demographics and social needs.
Master of Landscape Architecture
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Stewart, Abel C. "Undocumented Migrants and Engaging Public Spaces of Listening." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1388746240.
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Huijbens, Edward H. "Void Spaces : apprehending the use and non-use of public spaces in the urban." Thesis, Durham University, 2005. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2867/.
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This thesis builds up a three part genealogy of the theoretical apprehensions of space through a three part narrative of a recently constructed public square, serving as the gateway to Edinburgh's new financial quarter, the Exchange. The aim of this genealogy and its narrative counterparts is to re-imagine the ways in which public spaces in the urban environment can be understood with reference to their materiality and use or non- use. This re-imagining aims to move away from all subjective accounts that focus only on varying degrees of use and the use-value of materiality and can lend themselves all to easily to ideals and aspirations of city planners and various scripted political projects. The thesis argues that of key importance in this re-imagining is to give space a clear role to play in its own apprehension. The argument of the thesis is that in order to apprehend public spaces in terms of their own materiality at one with use, a detailing of their materiality and use or non-use is insufficient if set up in juxtaposition to each other or made to interact through a dialectical confrontation. The thesis maintains that a strong empirical focus on the relations between materiality and use or non-use, on the most general level, will yield the most productive way of apprehending public spaces in terms of not reducing interactions between its materiality and use or non-use to a scripted theatre of determined functions and their subversion.
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Zamanifard, Hadi. "Urban Public Space Governance and Its Implications for Qualities of Place." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/381507.
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Urban public spaces are the loci of complex interactions among varied sectors of the
society, containing stakeholders within the general public, the private sector, and state
institutions. They are utilised for a wide range of activities where the diversity and
liveliness, yet also the complexities, of urban life are demonstrated.
The nature, use, and production of today’s urban public spaces have changed. Twentyfirst-century urban spaces are intensely used and the rights to the spaces are more
contested compared to those of their counterparts in the previous century. In addition, a
number of functional, economic, social, political, and managerial factors, challenges, and
changes have transformed urban public spaces: population growth, the rise of
neoliberalism in urban centres, under-management of public spaces, and political unrest,
among others. These changes led to the private sector’s widespread engagement in the
production and management of public spaces, once an exclusive / expected responsibility
of governments.
The private sector’s engagement in urban public space provision and management has
divided urban scholars. Mainstream literature labels this intervention as privatisation of
public spaces that has undermined the essentials of public spaces: the publicness,
authenticity, and social diversity. Others argue that private sector engagement in public
space provision is expanding the range of place options to the growing urban population
and can act as an enabler. In the wake of enough empirical investigation into the effects
of changes in public space production on the qualities of public spaces, the conundrum
has continued.
This thesis extends the conceptualisation of public space governance (PSG) to shed light
on the implications of public space production and management for the experience of
place. It develops and applies a public space governance framework (PSGF) to
empirically investigate two public spaces in the Australian city of Brisbane - the Queen
Street Mall (QSM) and South Bank Parklands (SBP). Both case study areas have notable
engagement of the private sector in their governance, although through varied
arrangements.
The PSGF is underpinned by four major components: 1) governance structure; 2) actors
and stakeholders; 3) governing tools; and 4) governing tasks. There is a twofold
evaluative component attached to this framework: substantive and procedural evaluations. The procedural evaluation takes into account the characteristics of good
governance arrangements, whereas the substantive one looks into urban design qualities
including publicness and sociability of the place. The substantive evaluation in this thesis
has been conducted through users’ perspectives via developing an index for measuring
experiential qualities (EQs) of comfort, diversity and vitality, inclusiveness, and image
and likeability.
This thesis employs mixed methods research (MMR) to empirically collect data. Twelve
semi-structured interviews with stakeholders including managers, planners, and policy
makers, and 286 intercept surveys of users were conducted as the principal methods of
data collection in this research. Document analysis and expert observation were
additionally employed with the aim of data triangulation.
The findings showed that EQs were more affected by the urban political economy of the
case study areas rather than merely by the private sector’s involvement. Nuances of the
distribution of rights and responsibilities, public participation in decision making, and
strategic directions and the visions of the governance matter significantly. Reflected in
the governance arrangements of the case study areas, these factors were influential in how
management regimes and policies respond to the needs and expectations of the users. The
private sector engagement in public space provision does not impact the experiential
qualities in the same way.
In terms of the EQ of comfort, in QSM, as place with a strong commercial image, users
expressed their needs for more comfortability in the shape of more seating, more drinking
fountains, and more vegetation and shade—essentials for a pleasant pause in a public
place. Yet, the governance in QSM was not adequately responding to these needs, leading
to the conclusion that QSM was as comfortable for users as a good commercial
thoroughfare was, where people were encouraged to move around, window-shop, and
purchase things to meet their needs even if it was simply quenching their thirst. In SBP,
the policies and strategies of governance encouraged spending long hours in the precinct
and accordingly seating, vegetation, and amenities for long stays were provided.
In terms of inclusiveness, in a public space like QSM, even with its dominant public
agency, Brisbane City Council (BCC) in governance, people were more likely to feel
controlled and watched because of the high level of economic and political interests at
stake. Besides, the findings acknowledged that collective images and cultural means that
are formed, maintained, and promoted by institutionalised governance play a crucial role in user exclusion through symbolising what types of activities, users, and behaviours are
deemed acceptable. BBC and Brisbane Marketing promoted QSM as a shopping mecca
for citizens and tourists, and South Bank Corporation envisaged SBP as a relaxing urban
park with high-end restaurants. These promotional images, beside extensive branding and
commerciality, could make lower socioeconomic groups feel excluded.
The findings revealed that diversity in QSM and to some extent in SBP was carefully
designed and controlled through soft regulations and policies. This resulted in lesser
playfulness of the environment and more formality.
This research makes a significant theoretical contribution by bridging the gap between
processes of shaping and managing public spaces—the governance— and urban design
qualities expected from good public spaces. Moreover, the quality measurements
substantially build on users’ perspectives to fill a gap in public space evaluation studies
which are preoccupied by expert-centric methods. This research highlights policy areas
in need of improvement in regard to governing in urban public spaces. Further research
might explore differences in behaviour of varied public space governance typologies,
specifically in relation to important challenges facing today’s urban environments such
as climate change, (fear of) terrorism, concerns about the epidemic of a sedentary
lifestyle, and / or sustainability, and in different political economies.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Environment and Sc
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Kinoshita, Yohei, and yohei kinoshita@rmit edu au. "Reconsidering Spaces Left-Over After Planning." RMIT University. Architecture & Design, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090723.113333.
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Suburbs in Melbourne present to us a unique context with which a new approach towards urban form can be devised using the existing conditions and opportunities found with infrastructural developments. This thesis contains the investigations on the various 'pathologies' of the urban fabric specifically on the potential use of 'Spaces Left-Over After Planning' as by-product to infrastructural development in relation to the reinvigoration of Melbourne suburbs under the influence of current and future metropolitan growth pressures. The contents of the research aims to demonstrate the potentials for urban diversification followed by densification using the already inherent characteristics of the selected suburbs (Oakleigh, Waverley and Broadmeadows) to facilitate the metropolitan expansion of Melbourne with the intention of encouraging ways in which suburban fabric can reach its maturity along with new infrastructural developments to foster community engagement.