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In this timely book, Vikas Mehta delivers a complex cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural narrative through a rich and elegant combination of texts and illustrations. This is a must read for all those committed to exploring public space-whether undergraduate or graduate students, planning and design practitioners, those who operate and maintain public spaces, or aspiring civic leaders committed to making the best use of public spaces in their cities. Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Professor of Urbanism and Architecture, Parsons School of Design, The New School university, New York City Vikas Mehta is seeking new commons through paradoxes, possibilities, and propositions on public space. This tour de force book considers a broad panoramic, and enlightening array of views on public space as a major interdisciplinary field within urbanism, a book that is at the same time a primer, guide, and a progressive book of rules. It is an insightful new guide that simplifies and demystifies the public space debate and affirms the value of good and just city life in the time of urban crisis. This book, like its author who is one of the leading authorities in urban design and public space, is innovative, clear, and able to open pathways to new ideas. Tigran Haas, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for the Future of Places, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Guest Research Scholar at LCAU, MIT

In this timely book, Vikas Mehta delivers a complex cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural narrative through a rich and elegant combination of texts and illustrations. This is a must read for all those committed to exploring public space-whether undergraduate or graduate students, planning and design practitioners, those who operate and maintain public spaces, or aspiring civic leaders committed to making the best use of public spaces in their cities. Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Professor of Urbanism and Architecture, Parsons School of Design, The New School university, New York City Vikas Mehta is seeking new commons through paradoxes, possibilities, and propositions on public space. This tour de force book considers a broad panoramic, and enlightening array of views on public space as a major interdisciplinary field within urbanism, a book that is at the same time a primer, guide, and a progressive book of rules. It is an insightful new guide that simplifies and demystifies the public space debate and affirms the value of good and just city life in the time of urban crisis. This book, like its author who is one of the leading authorities in urban design and public space, is innovative, clear, and able to open pathways to new ideas. Tigran Haas, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for the Future of Places, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Guest Research Scholar at LCAU, MIT

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Vikas Mehta, PhD, is a Professor of Urban Design, the Fruth/Gemini Chair and Ohio Eminent Scholar of Urban/Environmental Design at the School of Planning, College of DAAP, University of Cincinnati.

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