Contents:
Part 1: Perspectives
1. Public space: a critique of a metamorphosis Ali Madanipour
2. Crossing disciplinary and locational boundaries in public space-researchBas Spierings and Rianne van Melik
3. The collective outdoors: memories, desires and becoming local in an era of mobilityClare Rishbeth
4. Appropriation of public space: a dialectical approach in designing publicnessElahe Karimnia and Tigran Haas
5. Landshape urbanism: the topography of public spaceKarl Kullmann
6. Social justice as a framework for evaluating public spaceSetha Low
Part 2: Influences
7. Planetary public space: scale, context, and politics Jason Luger and Loretta Lees
8. Public Space and the New Urban Agenda: fostering a human-centered approach for the future of our citiesLuisa Bravo
9. Safety, public health and public spaceVania Ceccato
10. Inclusiveness and exclusiveness in public open spaces for the visually impairedKin Wai Michael Siu, Yi Lin Wong, and Jiao Xin Xiao
11. Public space, austerity and innovation (the London case) Matthew Carmona
12. Cultural visibility and place qualityCeren Sezer
13. (Post?)-Colonial parks: urban public space in Trinidad and ZanzibarGarth Myers
14. Global homogenization of public space? a comparison of Western and Eastern contextsTigan Panjaintan, Dorina Pojani, and Sebastien Darchen
15. Right to the city (at night): surveillance and spectacle in public spaceSu-Jan Yeo
16. No, Hiroba is not public space; so what?!Darko Radovic
Part 3: Types
17. Types as descriptive and analytic tools in public space researchKaren A. Franck and Te-Sheng Huang
18. Public space use: a classification Sverre Bjerkeset and Jonny Aspen
19. How public is public space?: a public/private typology Kim Dovey and Elek Pafka
20. Private, semi-private, and public spaces: Urban design quality critique, comparisons, and recommendationsEls Leclercq and Dorina Pojani
21. Throwntogether spaces: disassembling 'city beaches'Quentin Stevens
22. Parks and open spaces for older adults?Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
23. Expanding common ground Ken Greenberg
24. The skyscraper and public space: an uneasy history and the capacity for radical reinventionVuk Radovic
25. Memory, monuments and creating inclusive public spacesRenia Ehrenfeucht Part 4: Actions
26. Public space as a space of resistance and democratic resilience Jeffrey Hou
27. Public space and the political - reconnecting urban resistance and urban emancipationSabine Knierbein
28. Performing protestability: the dynamic between protests and public spacesTali Hatuka
29. Public space, publicness and public-facing artRike Sitas
30. Public space, immigration, and gentrification in the RavalJeremy Nemeth
31. Public space challenges and possibilities in Latin America: the city's socio-political dimensions through the lens of everyday lifeClara E. Irazabal-Zurita and Andrei Crestani
32. Typologies of the temporary: constructing public spacesMona El Khafif
33. Bringing public spaces to life: the animation of public space Troy Glover Part 5: Futures
34. Public space and the terror(ism) of timeMark Kingwell
35. Solidarism: exploring the publicness of parksMargaret Kohn
36. Events on our urban parkland: scrutinizing public private partnerships in parks governance regimes Susanna F. Schaller and Elizabeth Nisbet
37. The private lives of public spacesMichael Mehaffy and Peter Elmlund
38. How can big data transform public space research and design?Avigail Vantu and Kristen Day
39. Digital Technologies and Public Space in Contemporary China Tim Jachna
40. What if? Forecasting and composing public spacesMark Childs
41. The idea of the commons: challenges of enclosure, encroachment, and exclusionTridib Banerjee