Australian cities have undergone profound reforms over recent decades, as politicians,
decisionmakers and planners have sought to ensure our built environments remain liveable …

For decades, from design theory to urban planning and management, from social sciences
to urban environmental science, cities have been probed and analyzed from the partial …

There are a series of discrete but related critiques of the contemporary public space
situation, and it was these that the first part of this paper identified and organized. These …

This paper presents a model of, and method for benchmarking, the publicness of public
space—termed here as the Star Model. The model is intended to be of value for comparative …

The increasing involvement of the private sector in the design and management of urban
public space has prompted some critical scholars to predict the 'end of public space'. This …

In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across
the globe has become the exclusive preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense …

In the rapidly expanding public space debate of the past few years, a recurring theme is
the'loss of publicness' of contemporary urban public places. This book takes up the …

Re-framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions
rethinks the role and meaning of urban spaces through current trends and challenges in …

Understanding Cities is richly textured, complex and challenging. It creates the vital link
between urban design theory and praxis and opens the required methodological gateway to …

Academics have decried the erosion of public space under the neoliberal practices that
have taken root since the 1980s in cities around the world. However, it is unclear whether …