Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network: Lessons, Projects and Prospects from Lisbon

This book explores the hypothesis that public space – if conceptualised, 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 pa...