Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network

This book explores the hypothesis that public space – if conceptualized imagined and shaped at the metropolitan scale through innovative territorial design approaches – offers the possibility to interconnect and integrate various systems in search for synergic responses to emerging societal challenges that impact large urbanised landscapes.The book offers a multidimensional and multi-geographic framework to discuss the role of public space on contemporary metropolitan territories as part of MetroPublicNet - Building the foundations of a Metropolitan Public Space Network to support the robust low-carbon and cohesive city: Projects lessons and prospects in Lisbon research project. The reader will find a critical and overarching perspective on the conceptual methodological and empirical lenses that unfolded throughout the research process namely a systematised decoding of the public space projects policies and rationales that shaped the recent transformation of Lisbon Metropolitan Area. With a diverse range of authors actively engaged in academic research and professorship in design practice and in policy-oriented roles the book concludes with the outlining of forward-looking guidelines policy recommendations and design experimentations. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture urbanism landscape architecture and geography.