The Typology of New Public Sites organizes the invisible public spaces of our everyday environment into a system of sites, components and qualities, indexed and described through terms and definitions. The field guide not only represents a system of classification, but also a playful yet serious linguistic intervention into the discourse of architecture and planning. Through invented and appropriated language, this reference book / manifesto poetically challenges the authority of how public space is represented.
The Typology of New Public Sites was originally presented in conjunction with New Public Sites – Middle Branch Crossing during MICA’s M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition III in the spring of 2010.
The Typology of New Public Sites pdf (15.4mb)The Typology of New Public Sites is continually updated. Current online typology available at newpublicsites.org/typology.
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