Space-Time Design of the Public City

Book Overview

Urban Rhythms in the Contemporary City.- Working on Sunday: Regulations, Impacts and Perceptions of the Time-use Practices.- The Night and its Loss.- Re-populating the Night-time City: Hospitality and Gender.- Teenagers in the Contemporary City: Hypermodern Times, Spaces and Practices.- Time and Urban Morphology: Dispersed and Compact City Time Use in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona.- Intermezzo: Time Walk.- Efficiency, Temporal Justice, and the Rhythm of Cities.- Accessibility of Public Spaces and Services - Theoretical Remarks, Practices and Instruments from Urban Time Planning.- Mobility, Accessibility and Social Equity - A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Empirical Study in the Metropolitan Areas of Milan, Bologna and Turin.- Beyond Vague Promises of Liveability: An Exploration of Walking in Everyday Life.- Encounters in Motion: Considerations of Time and Social Justice in Urban Mobility Research.- Intermezzo: Time Intervention in Public Spaces: The Artist Mark Formanek.- Revisiting Exemplars of the Times-of-the-City Approach: The Viability of the 'Neodiscipline' Claim... .- City, Urbanism, Social Sustainability and the Right to the City.- The Area Governance Plan and the Territorial Time Plan of the City of Bergamo: An Example of Temporal City Planning.- Time Policies in Italy: The Case of the Middle Adriatic Regions.- Studying Good Practices to Lesson-Drawing and Transfer: Introduction to the Causal Mechanisms Approach. A proposal for Exchanges Among European Networks on Time-oriented Policies.- Do Urban Time Policies have a Real Impact on Quality of Life? And which Methods are Apt to Evaluate Them?.- Further Research and Policy Perspectives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401781184
• ISBN13: 9789401781183
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"