The editors and the MetroPublicNet team invite you to the launch of the book 'Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network: lessons, projects and prospects from Lisbon', published by Routledge, and that is part of the CIAUD's 'Project Thinking on Design' book series. The book presents the results and reflections on the themes explored within MetroPublicNet research project, based at FA and CIAUD, through FCT funds.

The event will take place on February 20th at 4pm, in the MAC/CCB Auditorium at the Centro Cultural de Belém, and will have a critical comment from Prof. Fernando Brandão Alves, full professor at FEUP.

This book explores the hypothesis that public space – if conceptualized, imagined, and shaped at the metropolitan scale, through innovative territorial design approaches – offers the possibility to interconnect and integrate various systems in search for synergic responses to emerging societal challenges that impact large, urbanised landscapes.
With a diverse range of authors actively engaged in academic research and professorship, in design practice, and in policy-oriented roles, the book concludes with the outlining of forward-looking guidelines, policy recommendations, and design experimentations, for a potential Metropolitan Public Space Network.

Open access for download here