Explore Florence’s Iconic Squares

Description

Nine piazzas are selected here for analysis, chosen from Florence’s many wonderful urban spaces. They are chosen for their variety of configurations, contained activities, and moods, for their instructive value and explanatory power, for their mix of successes and shortcomings, because they are some of the town’s largest, most important, most intensely used exterior public places. The piazzas are not treated historically but described as they are today, as contemporary, living, architectural configurations, as public spaces in a present-day urban environment that may offer us design wisdom applicable to today’s project challenges. It is a terrific, superbly illustrated, comprehensive study of what makes urban spaces so important to community life.

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