Promoting The Role Of Public Spaces | Developing public spaces as a spatial integration element in the city of Fortaleza

Antônio Gilberto Monte Studart Gurgel

ISBN 10: 3845435216 / ISBN 13: 9783845435213

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

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Promoting The Role Of Public Spaces | Developing public spaces as a spatial integration element in the city of Fortaleza | Antônio Gilberto Monte Studart Gurgel | Taschenbuch | 180 S. | Englisch | 2011 | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing | EAN 9783845435213 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: Promoting The Role Of Public Spaces | Developing public spaces as a spatial integration element in the city of Fortaleza
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3845435216
• ISBN 13: 9783845435213
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 11D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 286 grams
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Synopsis

The declining process of public spaces role, during the last decades, particularly on Latin American cities, was followed by an increase of private sphere importance. Many of the functions traditionally developed on public spaces are now being intensely promoted by private spaces. This process of public spaces transformation and neglecting is promoting more spatial fragmentation in the cities, which leads us to a challenge: how can we improve public spaces in order to decrease this fragmentation tendency? This book explores public spaces role on the context of Fortaleza, in Brazil. This city, on the last 100 years, had a huge and uncontrolled spatial and population growth, determining fast changes on its urban structure. However, public space structure was one of the city elements which did not follow the pace of urban transformations, losing its quality and its capacity to support urban development. This book debates the role of public spaces as an element to integrate the physical structures and the flows of the city, presenting alternatives to develop public spaces quality and exploring the potentialities of these spaces to support the city development and its life quality.

About the Author

The author graduated on Architecture and Urbanism, at Federal University of Ceara(Brazil-2002). He holds a Master of Science in Urbanism, at Delft University of Technology - TU-Delft (Holland-2010). Nowadays he is professor at two different Architecture Faculties in Brazil and he is the founding partner of Épura Office (www.epuraprojetos.com.br).