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    Series series Revue des Deux Mondes
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  • Was denkt das Denkmal?

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  • How Good Are Parklets?

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    Parklets are innovative, dynamic public spaces that are installed onto on-street car-parking spots. These very small spaces have had a very large and lasting impact on city streets. How Good Are Parklets? is the first book to critically examine the parklet’s purposes, formats and impacts. It traces the parklet’s history, from its invention in 2005 as an experiment that tactically reclaimed street ... Leer más

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  • Temporary and Tactical Urbanism

    (Re)Assembling Urban Space

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  • Activating Urban Waterfronts

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  • Memorials as Spaces of Engagement

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  • The Ludic City

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    This international and illustrated work challenges current writings focussing on the problems of urban public space to present a more nuanced and dialectical conception of urban life.Detailed and extensive international urban case studies show how urban open spaces are used for play, which is defined and discussed using Caillois' four-part definition – competition, chance, simulation and vertigo. ... Leer más

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    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
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  • Transforming Urban Waterfronts

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    Series series Routledge Advances in Geography
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  • Creative Milieux

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