Animation or Denigration? Using Urban Public Spaces as Event Venues

Eventfulness, Event Modalities, and the Dilemma of Using Outdoor Events as a Public Realm Revitalization Initiative (Case Study: Shiraz, Iran)

Shiraz, with its historical background, known as the capital of the Persian culture, once experienced a boom of international culture-led events using outdoor spaces as event venues. However, its outdoor vibrancy has withered gradually, and the use of public places as venues declined. Despite the existing dilemmas, a new wave of public place reclamation has created a strong trend towards using ...

Book Review: Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places

Right to the City and Urban Public Spaces

Right to the city is composed of appropriation and participation in urban affairs. Appropriation is realized through movement in the city, presence in it, comfort feeling, and having proper spaces. While urban participation is possible through being involved in urban policy-making, decision-making for physical and spatial issues, urban economy, ownership and control of urban...

Structured Network Public Spaces a Step Toward Integration of Urban

Network of public spaces composes of a network of interconnected land use and various elements of the city, such as synthetic and natural which shows the city as a whole. Network structure of public spaces is important because understanding this network as a structure presents us the formation of the city. This paper attempts to define the status of the network of public spaces in the city stru...

Crime Scene or Event Scene?

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