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1. Spaces of Engagement

   Memorial Design, Use and Meaning

   By Karen Franck, Quentin Stevens

   In recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in the number and diversity of public memorials built in Europe, the U.S. and around the world. Innovations in design and new ideas about appropriate subjects for commemoration have jointly reinvigorated commemorative practices in urban public...

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Transforming Urban Waterfronts

   Fixity and Flow

   Edited by Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley, Quentin Stevens, Dirk Schubert

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Ludic City

   Exploring the Potential of Public Spaces

   By Quentin Stevens

   This international and illustrated work challenges current writings focussing on the problems of urban public space to present a more nuanced and dialectical conception of urban life. Detailed and extensive international urban case studies show how urban open spaces are used for play, which is...

   Published April 15th 2007 by Routledge
4. Loose Space

   Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life

   Edited by Karen Franck, Quentin Stevens

   In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar...

   Published October 26th 2006 by Routledge