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Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Barbora Melis - Health, Diversity, and Temporary Appropriation in Public Space, Inbunden

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Health, Diversity, and Temporary Appropriation in Public Space

Av Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Barbora Melis

Del i serien Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

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Cities are designed for order, but lived through improvisation. Contemporary cities are increasingly designed for control, efficiency, and safety, yet everyday urban life continues to exceed these intentions. This book explores how temporary appropriation—the spontaneous and informal use of public space—reveals how people actively shape their environments in ways that support health, diversity, and social interaction.Bringing together urban design, public health, and social theory, this book advances the concept of temporary appropriation as a fundamental mechanism through which urban life is produced and negotiated. Through international case studies and interdisciplinary analysis, it demonstrates how everyday practices such as play, social gathering, and informal adaptation contribute to physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Moving beyond conventional approaches to place-making and design, this book introduces the notion of performative healthscapes, showing how health is not simply provided by infrastructure, but emerges through lived spatial practices. It also critically addresses issues of regulation, inclusion, and embodied diversity, highlighting the uneven capacity to appropriate space across different groups.This book will be of interest to scholars and students in urban design, planning, and urban health, as well as practitioners and policymakers concerned with creating more inclusive and adaptable public spaces.
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Jose Antonio Lara‑Hernandez is a Lecturer and Research Coordinator at Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand (NZ). A member of the curatorial team for the ItalianPavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale, he is a prolific scholar whose work on temporary appropriation, urban informality, and inclusive cities has been published and exhibited internationally. With over 12 years’ experience as a registered architect and urban designer, he is a Chartered Member of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Mérida (Mexico). His research spans Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.Barbora Melis is an urban planner and researcher specialising in inclusive and gender‑sensitive urbanism. She graduated in Urban Planning from Technische Universität Berlin (with studies at IUAV Venice) and has over ten years of international experience working for public institutions (including the Veneto Region) and in professional practice across Italy, Germany, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA. She teaches at the New York Institute of Technology (USA) and recently completed her PhD at the University of Portsmouth (UK). Her research focuses on inclusion, diversity, and urban resilience from a feminist perspective and builds on her doctoral research into women’s experiences of public space.

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