Searching for Quality of Public Space

The paper summarizes the research experience of a small group of Italian colleagues, including myself, with Martina Löw and other scholars of the Collaborative Research Center 1265 about the conceptualization of the quality of public space. The fertile exchange during the years in which we worked together led us to pursue two objectives. The first one regarded the adoption of Löw’s analytical approach in thinking theoretically about space, and this was certainly the most significant aspect for us in our experience with her. The second one consisted of accepting the invitation to define quality through the lenses of spatial sociology.