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– Anthony Maniscalco"/>
A little island on Pier 55: urban austerity and the eclipse of publicly made public space?
– Anthony Maniscalco
They say history is written by the winners. When public space is constructed and regulated at the behest of park conservancies, public-private part…
– Sonja Jankov"/>
Rooftop of the Total Palace
– Sonja Jankov
Total palaces were built all over socialist countries mostly during the 1980s, although examples can be found in prior decades. Originating from sp…
– Stephanie Newcomb"/>
Coopelluvia: facilitating urban water commoning
– Stephanie Newcomb
Southern California—specifically Los Angeles—is no stranger to water scarcity. To sustain a growing population, a hyper-centralized infrastructural…
– Spilios Iliopoulos and Michaela Loukia Litsardaki"/>
Pocket parks as spaces of “Re-public”: the experience of the Alexandrou Svolou initiative
– Spilios Iliopoulos and Michaela Loukia Litsardaki
It is very common in modern cities to find, within the urban fabric, forgotten/neglected parts,which are pieces of land that have either been abandoned in relation to an earlier…
– Elisa Privitera and Filippo Gravagno"/>
A street-explorative and interactive-designing laboratory
– Elisa Privitera and Filippo Gravagno
The current state of participatory planning in Italy tells us that, until now there are few aware and empowered experiences of urban transformative processes…
– Melissa Harrison"/>
The (market-) state of the “public”: reappropriating the urban as common(s)
– Melissa Harrison
Over the past decades, intensified following the 2008 financial crisis, we have witnessed geographically and qualitatively diverse assaults on the …
– Eliki-Athanasia Diamantouli and Athina Fousteri"/>
Playscapes in the city of Larissa: a participatory design approach engaging architects, children and adults
– Eliki-Athanasia Diamantouli and Athina Fousteri
In 1989, the United Nations (UN General Assembly, 1989) established the children’s right to play. As a result, cities and municipalities became responsible to fulfill this need…
– Brinda Shrestha"/>
Does the city have the right to disregard children? The role of children in contemporary Kathmandu, Nepal
– Brinda Shrestha
The urbanization trend in modern Kathmandu, Nepal, as in other developing Asian cities, is broadly scrutinized as the result of an aftermath of un…