a+t architecture publishers

THE PUBLIC CHANCE, the new a+t book on public spaces available by the end of July 2008, gathers the most commonly used design strategies in revitalizing public space. Twenty different strategies on public space design are thus highlighted, from the included projects.

1. Expanding open space for facilities
2. Camouflaging facilities in a continuous landscape
3. Colonising interstitial space of infrastructures
4. Turning roofs into public space
5. Balancing different rhythms of users
6. Creating networks of connected spaces
7. Customising urban furniture
8. Creating different spaces
9. Designing with durable and low-cost materials
10. Hybriding tectonics and nature
11. Inserting commercial activities
12. Integrating surveillance and dissuasion
13. Introducing recreation and experimentation activities
14. Introducing information technology
15. Covering conventional traffic and showing sustainable transport
16. Recycling land and restoring ecosystems
17. Transferring landscapes
18. Using paving as landscape
19. Using graphics as a sign of identity
20. Using private spaces publicly

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