On Public Space
Exploring Liminal Spaces in the Contemporary City

edited by Marianna Ascolese

The contemporary city offers us multiple visions of very heterogeneous spaces. Suburban areas, large buildings-containers, liminal spaces of old centres, open spaces, fields and streets are translated into new potential urban phenomena that we could call public. Reading and recognising these types of spaces that are between different material and immaterial conditions offers the contemporary architect a new way of intervening, transforming and returning to the community places that are too often residual or unrecognised. Public space becomes a pretext for imagining, but above all for recognising, the new places for urban life, places that are no longer fixed, but changeable, reactive and adaptable to the dynamics of society and the needs of the community.

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Some Public Spaces by Ambrogio Prezioso; Why Again On Public Space? by Alberto Calderoni; Learning to Observe. Exploring Multiple Public Spaces by Marianna Ascolese; Emerging Ethics of the Urban: Sustainability in the margins by Marica Castigliano; Public Space as Narration by Francesca Iarrusso; To Interact, to Play, to Appropriate by Caterina Viguera and Alexandra Sonnemans; The Time of the Body. Disseminating Architectural Follies by Vanna Cestarello; Space in Transition. Notes on Public Space, Temporariness and Collective Identity by Viviana Saitto; The Public interior and its subjects by Mark Pimlott.