City Project and Public Space

1. Environmental City Project and Public Dimension of Landscape
Silvia Serreli

Part I. City Project: Public Space Design

2. A Great Work: Renovatio Urbis in the Age of Globalisation
Arnaldo “Bibo” Cecchini

3. The Identity of the City
Ali Madanipour

4. The [Loving] Metropolitan Landscape and the Public-Private Borderland: Refiguring the Field for Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design
Dorian Wiszniewski

5. Opening Up Relations Again Between Form and the World: The City and the ‘Becoming’ of Forms: Design as the Outcome of a Dynamic Figuration
Lidia Decandia

6. Despite the Absence of the Public Sphere: How Common Goods Can Generate Opportunities for the Design of Public Spaces
Davide Ponzini

Part II. Territorial Project: Public Space Experiences

7. Territorial Project as City Project
Gianfranco Sanna

8. Bigness or Vastness?
Francesco Spanedda

9. Making Territory
Frederick Steiner

10. Local and New
Jürgen Weidinger

11. Landscape as a “Common”: Collective Protection and Management
Paola Pittaluga

12. It Don’t Mean a Thing if You Ain’t Got That Swing: A Jazz-Based Model for the Public Space Project
Giovanni Maria Filindeu

Part III. City Policies: Public Sphere

13. Designing Public Spaces and Constructing Public Spheres: A Manifesto
Enrico Cicalò

14. Urban Play as a ‘Social Interstice’: On a Micro-intervention Involving a Mobile Game Device
Luc Lévesque

15. Space for Plural Publics and Their Involvement: Reflections on Some Strategic Planning Experiences
Alessandra Casu

16. Eight Proposals to Construct the Democratic City of the New Millennium
Alessandro Plaisant

17. The Capability Approach in Urban Quality of Life and Urban Policies: Towards a Conceptual Framework
Ivan Blečić, Arnaldo ‘Bibo’ Cecchini, Valentina Talu

18. Slow Populations and Tourism
Daniela Ciaffi, Alfredo Mela

Keywords: Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Architecture, general, Urbanism, Landscape Architecture, Social Sciences, general