ICIPSSL 2020 : International Conference on Informalizing Public Space and Street Life is the premier interdisciplinary platform for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Informalizing Public Space and Street Life. The conference will bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
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The role of informality in public space
Forms of informality take place in public spaceDifferent forms of informality work in public spaceThe role of the built environmentUrban design that most effectively address informality in the process of shaping and managing public spacesThe synergies and contradictions between formal and informal in public spaceThe in-between conditionsForms of informality that compete for space and visibilityMethods that can be used to unravel the ways in which forms of informality work in public spaceThe adaptations and codes of informality in public spaceThe relations between urban informality and street-life intensityThe rhythms of informality in public spaceThe relations between spatial, social, and temporal aspects of informality in public spaceWays that can urban mapping be used to unravel the dynamics of informality in public spaceUrban design interventions that enable or constrain the emergence and consolidation of informality in public spaceWays that can urban informality be sustained in public space