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Urban Open Space Design: What to Do?

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Conscious Dwelling

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The chapter deals with the redevelopment of urban open spaces, proposing a strategy that can assign them the character of “identity figures”, representative of the significance that they preserve in the contemporary world, including the symbolic one. Most texts on this subject merely map the achievements of recent years, demonstrating a renewed institutional interest in the environmental quality of people public lives. Now it is necessary that the design culture opens a debate between schools of thought, without comfortable tactics and with the aim of clarifying a crucial issue for the future of our cities.

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    Competition project for the redevelopment of the Piacentinian Centre in Bergamo, 2017. Architects: Katia Accossato, Luciano Crespi, Luigi Trentin.

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    Competition project for the redevelopment of the Lecco Waterfront, 2021. Project qualified at the second stage. Designers: Luciano Crespi (group leader), Katia Accossato, Katia Fucci, Marco Splendore, Luigi Trentin. Consultants: Eng. Giovanni Albertini (lighting designer); Arch. Francesco Jannone (consultant/lighting designer); P.E. Daniele Pessotto (lighting designer); Arch. Serena Tellini (consultant/lighting designer); Eng. Massimo Percudani (traffic study centre); Arch. Henrique Pessoa (landscape project); Arch. Osvaldo Pogliani (cost estimator); Krijn de Koning (artist and artistic consultant). Contributors: Francesco Antonelli, Malda Frei Eman, Lucia Ratti, Massimo Savino, Mirco Sturlese.

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Crespi, L. (2022). Urban Open Space Design: What to Do?. In: Anzani, A. (eds) Conscious Dwelling. Springer Series in Design and Innovation , vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97974-4_1

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