SpaceTime Design of the Public City Urban and Landscape Perspectives

Editors: Dietrich Henckel, Susanne Thomaier, Benjamin Könecke, Roberto Zedda, Stefano Stabilini. Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, 2013. - 332 с. ISBN 978-94-007-6424-8 With Information Society, the use of time and urban rhythms changes but also the forms of inhabiting urban space, which creates new disparities based on the access to knowledge and to the services available in the urban environment. The spatial and temporal accessibility of services is a central issue for the development of contemporary urban environments: It relates to themes such as social cohesion, democratic use of the city, local welfare, quality of life of citizens, urban quality and urban sustainability. By focusing on the supply and accessibility of services, one challenges the equitable and sustainable development of contemporary urban systems. We address this topic starting from the notion of the inhabited city, the physical city including the citizens who inhabit it, in the path of the innovation produced during the last 20 years in Europe: the space-time approach to urban policies, urban design and planning. Rhythms and Diversity Marco Mareggi Urban Rhythms in the Contemporary City Jean-Yves Boulin Working on Sunday: Regulations, Impacts and Perceptions of the Time Use Practices Merle Pottharst and Benjamin Konecke The Night and Its Loss Adam Eldridge and Marion Roberts Re-populating the Nighttime City: Hospitality and Gender Luc Gwiazdzinski Teenagers in the Contemporary City: Hypermodern Times, Spaces and Practices Gemma Vila Time and Urban Morphology: Dispersed and Compact City Time Use in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona Albert Mayr and Antonella Radicchi Intermezzo: Time walk Mobility and Access Dietrich Henckel and Susanne Thomaier Efficiency, Temporal Justice, and the Rhythm of Cities Stefano Stabilini, Roberto Zedda, and Lucia Zanettichini Accessibility of Public Spaces and Services: Theoretical Remarks, Practices and Instruments from Urban Time Planning Matteo Colleoni Mobility, Accessibility and Social Equity: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Empirical Study in theMetropolitan Areas of Milan, Bologna and Turin Jenni Kuoppa Beyond Vague Promises of Liveability: An Exploration ofWalking in Everyday Life Konrad Miciukiewicz and Geoff Vigar Encounters in Motion: Considerations of Time and Social Justice in Urban Mobility Research Dietrich Henckel, Benjamin K ̈onecke, and Susanne Thomaier Intermezzo: Time Intervention in Public Spaces – The Artist Mark Formanek Urban Time Policies Jeroen van Schaick Revisiting Exemplars of the Times-of-the-City Approach: The Viability of the ‘Neodiscipline’ Claim Fermın Rodrıguez Gutierrez City, Urbanism, Social Sustainability and the Right to the City Marina Zambianchi The Area Governance Plan and the Territorial Time Plan of the City of Bergamo: An Example of Temporal City Planning Raffaella Radoccia Time Policies in Italy: The Case of the Middle Adriatic Regions Giancarlo Vecchi 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 Ulrich Muckenberger Do Urban Time Policies Have a Real Impact on Quality of Life? And Which Methods Are Apt to Evaluate Them? Dietrich Henckel, Benjamin K ̈onecke, and Susanne Thomaier Further Research and Policy Perspectives Author Index Subject Index Time has become an increasingly important topic in urban studies and urban planning. The spatial-temporal interplay is not only of relevance for the theory of urban development and urban politics, but also for urban planning and governance. The space-time approach focuses on the human being with its various habits and routines in the city. Understanding and taking those habits into account in urban planning and public policies offers a new way to improve the quality of life in our cities. Adapting the supply and accessibility of public spaces and services to the inhabitants’ space-time needs calls for an integrated approach to the physical design of urban space and to the organization of cities. In the last two decades the body of practical and theoretical work on urban space-time topics has grown substantially. The book offers a state of the art overview of the theoretical reasoning, the development of new analytical tools, and practical experience of the space-time design of public cities in major European countries. The contributions were written by academics and practitioners from various fields exploring space-time research and planning. "Time has become an ever more important topic in urban studies and urban planning. The spatial temporal interplay is not only of relevance for the theory of urban development and urban politics, but also for urban planning in governance. The space-time approach focuses on the human being with its various habits and routines in the city. Understanding them and considering them in urban planning and public policies offers a new way to improve the quality of life in our cities. Adapting the supply and accessibility of public spaces and services to the inhabitants' space-time needs requires an integrated approach to the physical design of urban space and to the organization of the city. In the last two decades the practical and theoretical work on urban space-time topics has grown substantially. The book gives a state of the art overview of the theoretical reasoning, the development of new analytical tools, and practical experience of the space-time design of the public city in major European countries. The contributions are written by academics and practitioners in various fields of space-time research and planning."--Publisher description