The article suggests a set of design requirements to orient urban practices of transformation and space management when they work on transition spaces, which are difficult to interpret and classify in accordance with traditional dichotomous categories such as centre/periphery, urban/not urban, open/closed, abandoned/lived, public/private. The first part of the article explains how various disciplines describe and characterise this kind of space, which cannot be described precisely through traditional categories. Literature search indicates how transition spaces have a number of attributes that can be translated into requirements to steer design actions. The examples of urban practices, described in the central paragraphs of the article, quickly show how project actions actualize the requirements that can be inferred both from literature and from the examples themselves. The conclusions summarise the design requirements to transform and manage transition spaces, in order to orient “pioneering urban practices”, thus opening the way to different modes of intervention and offering new insights into the role of designers and users in this particular kind of practice. Promising prospects emerge not only for the design methodology of this type of spaces, but also for the possibility of addressing relevant issues in the current disciplinary debate concerning, on the one hand, the liveability and care of urban spaces and therefore the regeneration of public space, at a time in history when its existence is questioned, on the other hand the effectiveness of the involvement and empowerment of local societies in the processes of space transformation.

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转型空间中的开创性城市实践

文章提出了一套设计要求，以在过渡空间工作时引导城市转型和空间管理的实践，这些空间难以按照中心/外围、城市/非城市、开放/开放/等传统二分类别进行解释和分类。封闭的、废弃的/居住的、公共的/私人的。文章的第一部分解释了各种学科如何描述和刻画这种无法通过传统类别精确描述的空间。文献搜索表明过渡空间如何具有许多属性，这些属性可以转化为需求以引导设计操作。文章中央段落中描述的城市实践示例，快速展示项目行动如何实现可以从文献和示例本身推断出的需求。结论总结了改造和管理过渡空间的设计要求，以定位“开创性的城市实践”，从而为不同的干预模式开辟道路，并为设计师和用户在这种特殊实践中的作用提供新的见解。不仅在此类空间的设计方法上出现了充满希望的前景，而且在当前的学科辩论中解决相关问题的可能性也出现了，一方面涉及城市空间的宜居性和关怀，因此也涉及公共空间的再生，在历史上它的存在受到质疑的时候，