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A comparative study on the relationship between quality of space and urban space activities in the public open spaces

open access: yesMegaron, 2017
The quality of life of people in urban areas is a result of interaction of humans with the urban environment. Many studies show that open public spaces and the activities conducted in these areas are important urban environment factors that contribute to
Gökçe Uzgören   +1 more
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Public Spaces, spaces of public domain: Icons of a contemporary simulacrum? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The contemporary city is a result of plural connections between the historical matrix and the effects of global policies. Immersed in a flux of multiple contents, it seems to respond to an era of transition in which the sense of belonging to an urban space is profoundly tensioned by transformations in the cultural, social, technological and political ...
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QUALITY OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT: ISSUES OF ORGANIZATION AND SOCIALIZATION OF PUBLIC SPACE

open access: yesВекторы благополучия: экономика и социум, 2021
The paper considers the approaches to definition of the concept of «Public space» of the city and introduces the classification of the types of public spaces, including according to new features introduced by the authors (human life cycle, natural and ...
Olga V. Artemova, Anastasia N. Savchenko
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The Augmented Meta-Public Space. Interpreting emerging transductive territories in enhanced centres of consumption

open access: yes, 2017
<p>Recent socioeconomic and technological advancements are transforming the routines of consumption into post-consumerist practices. From a socio-spatial perspective, this is primarily driven by the augmentation of two main processes: prosumption ...
Manfredini, Manfredo   +1 more
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Public Space CCTV: Research Findings

open access: yes, 2023
1.1 Overview In 2022, the Scottish Government commissioned a study of public space closed circuit television (CCTV) in Scotland, which aimed to update baseline evidence of the provision of public space CCTV in Scotland.
Cullen, Amy   +4 more
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Reading in public libraries: space, reading activities and user profiles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This single case research was developed within a public library in Porto, Portugal, Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett. Its main objective was to understand how public library readers interact with space, the Internet technology and reading resources ...
Sequeiros, Paula
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The Virtual Public Thing: de-re-territorialisations of public space through shopping in Auckland’s urban space

open access: yesInterstices, 2015
New recombinant factors emerging in urban public space counteract the increasing disjunction of urban places subject to commodification and privatisation.
Manfredo Manfredini, Ross Jenner
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Art and the Public Space

open access: yes, 2014
Public and artistic practices in the public area have been the object of a lot of research: most of the time, the studies are concerned with interventions or actions which dispute the established institutional order or at least try to disturb its obviousness (e.g. urban guerrilla).
Ancel, Pascale, Girel, Sylvia
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Yoga and White Public Space

open access: yesReligions, 2020
This article connects recent work in critical race studies, museum studies, and performance studies to larger conversations happening across the humanities and social sciences on the role of performance in white public spaces. Specifically, I examine the
Rumya S. Putcha
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Recalling the Political in Public Space

open access: yes, 2014
The history of public space is often the same history as discrimination and revolts. It is because public spaces are intended to be open-ended, in order for the public to enjoy and express themselves. In societies where the government is put in place and
H. KOON WEE, Wee, HK
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