What makes a great city

Machine generated contents note: Defining the Public Realm

Streets, Squares, and Parks

Beyond Streets, Squares, and Parks

Making Cities Great

Open to Anybody

Something for Everybody

Attracting and Retaining Market Demand

Providing a Framework for Successful Urbanization

Sustaining a Habitable Environment

Nurturing and Supporting a Civil Society

Overwhelmingly Identifiable, Accessible, and Easy to Use

Plaza Mayor, Salamanca, Spain

Creating an Identifiable, Accessible, and Easy-to-Use Public Realm

The Paris Metro

Federal Center, Chicago

Piazza del Campo, Siena, Italy

The Squares of Savannah

Sixteenth Street, Denver

Keeping the Public Realm Safe

Gran Via, Barcelona

Piet Heinkade, Amsterdam

The Streets of Paris

Feeling Comfortable

Jardin du Palais Royale, Paris

Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Kungstradgarten, Stockholm

Via dei Condotti, Rome

Via Aquilante, Gubbio, Italy

Worth Avenue, Palm Beach

Levittown, Long Island

Forever Welcoming

A Reason to Return Again and Again

Boulevard des Italiens, Paris

Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris

Washington Park, Chicago

Having Fun

Playgrounds

Piazza Navona, Rome

Animating a Multifunctional Public Realm

Market Square and PPG Place, Pittsburgh

A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place

Central Park, New York City

Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona

Reclaiming Bits of the Public Realm for Public Use

Plenty of People

Using the Public Realm to Trigger Private Development

Place des Vosges, Paris

The Revival of the Place des Vosges

Regent's Park, London

Avenue Foch, Paris

Enlarging the Public Realm to Accommodate a Growing Market

An Administrative Center for the Modern City of Paris

North Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Responding to Diminishing Market Demand by Repositioning the Public Realm

Kärntner Straße, Vienna

Bryant Park, New York City

Continuing Investment

Alternative Frameworks

Atlanta

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Rome

St. Petersburg, Russia

The Paris Street Network

Ringstrasse, Vienna

Radio-Concentric Moscow

Houston's Highway Rings

The Manhattan Grid

Maintaining the Public Realm Framework

Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan

Determining the Location of Market Activity

What Does It Take to Sustain a Habitable Environment?

Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn

Using the Public Realm to Create a Habitable Environment

Boston's Emerald Necklace

Long Island's Network of Parks, Beaches, and Parkways

Reconfiguring the Public Realm to Improve Habitability

The Public Squares of Portland, Oregon

New York City's Greenstreets Program

Transportation Alternatives That Improve Habitability

Union Square, San Francisco

Post Office Square, Boston

Congestion Pricing in London

Congestion Targets in Zurich

An Ever More Habitable Public Realm

The Chicago Lakeshore

Reviving the San Antonio River

Operating the Public Realm

Park Management in New York City

An Ever-Improving Public Realm

The Nurturing Role of the Public Realm

The Streets of Copenhagen

Palace Square (Dvortsovaya Ploshchad), St. Petersburg

Red Square, Moscow

Ensuring That the Public Realm Continues to Nurture a Civil Society

Times Square, Manhattan

The Public Realm as a Setting for Self-Expression

Whose Realm Is It?

Determining the Daily Life of a City

The Squares of London

The Minneapolis Park System

The Madrid Miracle

The Key to Greatness

The Patient Search for a Better Tomorrow

Place de la Republique, Paris

Post Oak Boulevard in the Uptown District of Houston

Brooklyn Bridge Park

Atlanta's BeltLine Emerald Necklace

Waterfront Toronto

What Makes a City Great.