Public Space and Relational Perspectives: New Challenges for Architecture and Planning
About this ebook
Public Space and Relational Perspectives offers a different understanding of public spaces in the city. The aim of the book is to (re)introduce the lived experiences in public life into the teaching curricula of those academic disciplines which deal with public space and the built environment, such as architecture, planning and urban design, as well as the social sciences.
The book presents conceptual, practical and research challenges and brings together findings from activists, practitioners and theorists. The editors provide eight educational challenges that educators can endorse when training future practitioners and researchers to accept and to engage with the social relations that unfold in and through public space.
Cover image: KARO*
About the author
Chiara Tornaghi is Researcher and Teaching Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK. In 2009, she was the City of Vienna Junior Visiting Professor at the Centre for Public Space and Urban Culture (SKuOR), Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Sabine Knierbein
is Assistant Professor for Urban Culture and Public Space (tenure track) at the Department of Spatial Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Vienna University of Technology, Austria. She has directed the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space since 2008.
