Description:
Drawing from contemporary theories and concepts on the quality of public spaces, Re-Framing Urban Space offers a holistic framework to classify, evaluate and analyze existing and emerging hybrid typologies of urban spaces in high-density contexts, and guide future urban developments.
Review Quotes:
"For a long time, conscientious professionals have expressed hostility towards dense environments and tall buildings, harboring, instead, the ideals of public spaces in the "human" scale and the city's rich visual communication in Medieval or 19th century urban design. Today, however, anybody can freely eat, profess their love, or read newspapers not only on ground level, but at heights 10m, 100m, 1,000m and 10,000m above ground. It is now time for classical knowledge to be reconstructed. This book provides stimulating material for architects, urban designers and landscape architects to revisit design philosophies on public spaces and reach brilliant new ideas fit to the realities of today." - Hidetoshi Ohno, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
"Focused on the dynamic, high density cities of East Asia, Reframing Urban Space argues that we need to move beyond traditional public-private space dualisms, to recognize the increasingly hybrid nature of contemporary cities. Provocative and richly illustrated, yet profoundly pragmatic, this foundational text should sit on every urban practitioner's desk." - Jennifer Wolch, William W. Wurster Dean, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley