{"product_id":"the-roofless-truth","title":"The Roofless Truth","description":"How should public space be designed to offer protection, dignity, and opportunities for homeless people, and to facilitate encounters and interaction? A comprehensive survey of homelessness, urban planning, and architecture.\n\u003cp\u003eHomelessness is one of the most pressing social challenges of our time, and is closely linked to issues of urban design and architecture. Homeless people are part of urban society and depend on accessible public spaces and urban infrastructure. Yet, in cities around the world, local governments use policies and urban planning to ward off street people, aiming at making them invisible in the cityscape and deliberately impeding certain forms of stay. Urban design always reflects power structures—it can exclude or open up avenues for participation.\u003c\/p\u003e \n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Roofless Truth\u003c\/em\u003e brings together contributions by international researchers and practitioners from the fields of architecture, urban development and design, sociology, ethnology, social work, and education. It offers academic analyses and essays, field reports, and student proposals for interventions in public space, and features award-winning projects and initiatives in Canada, Germany, Iran, Switzerland, and the US.\u003c\/p\u003e \n  \u003cp\u003eThe book highlights how public spaces should be designed to offer protection, dignity, and opportunities for homeless people, and to facilitate encounters and interaction. The featured examples impressively demonstrate that even the smallest spatial decision can determine inclusion or exclusion.\u003cem\u003e The Roofless Truth\u003c\/em\u003e paints a multifaceted picture of planning and design as a social practice beyond representation and prestige.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"search-metadata\"\u003ePlanning and Architecture for Homelessness Prof. Dr. Matthias Drilling, Fabian Neuhaus 978-3-03860-475-4\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Park Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53181972185416,"sku":"9783038604754","price":39.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/0255\/9816\/files\/9783038604754.jpg?v=1779811733","url":"https:\/\/www.hochparterre-buecher.ch\/products\/the-roofless-truth","provider":"Hochparterre Bücher","version":"1.0","type":"link"}