Space–Time Design of the Public City

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Henckel, Dietrich (Editor), Thomaier, Susanne (Editor), Könecke, Benjamin (Editor), Zedda, Roberto (Editor), Stabilini, Stefano (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives ; 15
• Subjects: Geography.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Medical research.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Physics.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Quality of life.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Urbanism.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Quality of Life Research.; Complex Networks.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.