Investigation into Shanghai Spatial Publicness
The paper investigates Shanghai spatial publicness through the theoretical reflection on the essence of public space, empirical surveys of Shanghai¿s social spaces, and architectural suggestions. When facing urban reality¿s complexity, fluidness and polysemy, the pivotal concept "spatial publicness" inclining to indeterminacy, instability and temporariness can perform better than the conventional one "public space". The new notion can facilitate disclosing the ...