Cover image: The Soupes de Belleville, a solidarity project during the pandemic, Belleville, April 2021. Photo by Adèle Madeux

Editors: Thomas Chung, Maria Duda, Nikos Kazeros, Hendrik Tieben,
Wai Chung Wu

Editorial team: Natalia Brener, Mohd Azli Mohamad Jamil, Sadichchha Shrestha, Camille Douglas Stephenson, Sandro Truchan, Manuel Zubiate

Editor-in-chief: Luisa Bravo

in partnership with International Union of Architects (UIA)

Published: 2026-06-29

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Editorial

How We Evaluate Shapes What Public Space Becomes

Thomas Chung, Maria Duda, Nikos Kazeros, Hendrik Tieben, Wai Chung Wu

1-4

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Articles

From Urban Safari to Becoming-Territorial

Locality Perspectives of the Centre of Athens

Dimitris Loupetis

5-30

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Reframing Public Space Evaluation through Multisited and Plurispatial Perspectives

Jilly Traganou, Riva Kastoryano, Dalia Amellal, Adèle Maudeux

31-56

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Remember and Reuse: Spatial Memory and Emotional Value of Post-socialist Public Spaces

Veronika Sharova

57-74

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Spatial Dialogues

Rethinking Public Space Evaluation in Post-Apartheid Cape Town

Dieudonné Elohym Da Costa

75-92

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Limits of Public Space Evaluation under Overlapping Urban Priorities

Ines Dobošić

93-114

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Unfolding Process-Based Indicators: Linking Participation, Perceived Ownership, and Stewardship Practice to Public Space Sustainability

Reflections from Neighbourhood-scale Public Spaces in Surakarta and Banjarmasin, Indonesia

Rizqa Hidayani, Nayaka Angger, Bisma Setiady, Melania Alvianti Sumaryata, Bima Pratama Putra, Kesuma Anugerah Yanti

115-140

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Evaluating Informal Public Space

Understanding Public Space Value in Two Informal Settlements in Ahmedabad, India

Kali Marnane

141-168

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The School Street as Extended Cognitive Space

A Participatory Framework for Evaluating Temporally Activated Public Spaces

Luciana Mastrolonardo, Stefania Gruosso, Chantal Zurlo

169-184

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The Public Space Service System (PSSS) Method

A Systemic, Service-Based and Actor-Oriented Evaluation Framework

Ana Brandão, Pedro Brandão, Ana Ferreira, Ana Teresa Prudêncio, Nisiane Madalozzo

185-208

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Evaluating Public Space through Inequality

Public Space and Socio-spatial Differentiation in Curitiba, Brazil

Alessandro Rosaneli

209-224

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Seen, Felt, and Lived

Design Principles for Socially Sustainable Public Spaces

Maurice Harteveld, Paolo De Martino, Sheida Ghelichkhany, Faye Ellen, Mes Ulkü

225-238

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Viewpoints

Designing Publicness

Evaluation, Experience, and the City in Transition

Rui Leão, Thomas Chung, Luisa Bravo

239-246

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UN-Habitat and its Public Space Mandate

From Programme to Network

José Chong, Diego Vivas, Katriya Bulutoglu

247-252

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