PUBLIC SPACE. The Familiar Into the Strange

Author: Marmorstein, Dan A.
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2011
No. of pages: 160
Illustrations: 76 Color Illustrations. 4 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9 1/2”x 7”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9788792700032
Biblio/Bio: Bios. Bibl.
Code: 6646

Price: $49.50

This is an architectural screenplay – a Toolbox - for people interested in and working with the development of public spaces and cities. The basis of the book is that all our cities are in intensive competition with each other in order to attract citizens, business and investments. In their efforts to become unique all cities end up pursuing the same developmental strategies. The result is that all European cities end up looking the same. This book addresses this tendency by developing a holistic and value based method for urban development. Based upon an interdisciplinary approach an innovative method that merges the scales of the city is developed by using four interconnected levels - City, Space, Life shaping and Body - the method secures that the physical frames for our daily lives are developed in interplay with the lived life. List of illustrations and sources.