The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area - 9780367367183

Taylor & Francis

The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay AreaApproaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion\nAuthor(s): Miodrag Mitrainovi?, Timothy Jachna\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367367183, 978-0367367183\nSynopsis\nThrough illustrated case studies and conceptual re-framings, this volume showcases ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly in the worlds most populous urban megaregionthe Greater Bay Area of southeastern Chinaprojected to reach eighty million inhabitants by the year 2025. \n\nThis book assembles diverse approaches to interrogating the forms of public space and the public realm that are emerging in the context of this regions rapid urban development in the last forty years, bringing together authors from urbanism, architecture, planning, sociology, anthropology and politics to examine innovative ways of framing and conceptualizing public space in.