Planned To Be Reclaimed:

Public Design Strategies for Spontaneous Practices of Spatial Appropriation

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  • Jacopo Leveratto Department of Architecture and Urban Studies - Politecnico di Milano

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https://doi.org/10.25765/sauc.v1i1.11

Abstract

Several contemporary studies on public space focus on its loss, in relation to an increase in people’s disengagement fromthese types of spaces. Since the 1960s, a considerable part of urban culture has attempted to develop strategies for peopleto re-appropriate public space and to ‘inhabit the city again.’ This has defined a line of research that, although now consolidated,is still little known in its complexity. In the effort to create a unified framework for the different attempts through whicharchitecture has historically responded to the rise of spontaneous forms of urban creativity, this paper outlines a short historyof design strategies aimed at enabling and encouraging different forms of spatial appropriation. It also highlights a gradualshift from prescriptive and repeatable rules to site-specific approaches, prompting a new disciplinary convergence betweenurban planning and design, interior architecture, industrial design and public art.

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2015-12-20

How to Cite

Leveratto, J. (2015). Planned To Be Reclaimed:: Public Design Strategies for Spontaneous Practices of Spatial Appropriation. Street Art & Urban Creativity, 1(1), 6–12. https://doi.org/10.25765/sauc.v1i1.11

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): Methodologies for Research

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