Contemporary Caravanserais. New model for public spaces and city squares

The book is a collection of thoughts, passages, research and projects that regard the question of public space. The square and its evolution, from a place of urban and human relationships to a place of a differente collective activities in the contemporary city. From the analysis one can read not only the design experience and the diffusion of new models, but also the changes in the aesthetic experience of public space, in its socio-urban and architectural implications, and in its relationships between horizontal space (square) and verical space.