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This book explores the role of participatory design in keeping these participatory processes public. It addresses four specific lines of enquiry: how can the use and development of technologies and social media help to diversify, coproduce, interrupt and document democratic design experiments.

This book examines the metaphorical existence of the city as an entity to understand its significance in planning and geography. Case studies of New York, Paris, Cairo, Mumbai, Tokyo and Los Angeles explore specific metaphors allowing the reader to understand the city from differing points of view.

The Virtual and the Real explores the merging relationship between physical and virtual spaces in planning and urban design. Technological advances such as smart sensors, interactive screens, locative media and evolving computation software have impacted the ways in which people experience, explore, interact with and create these complex spaces.

This book presents insight into the design and practical results of obligations in different countries and their effects on municipal financial health, demonstrating the increasing importance of efficient bargaining processes and the institutional design of developer obligations in urban planning.

Public Space Unbound brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to examine spaces, conditions and processes in which emancipatory practices impact the everyday life of citizens.