![]() Accordingly, the author, as a member of the Advisory and Support Group, shared thirty Italian case studies which represent good practices in the public space field. One of the objectives of the project is the comparison of the experiences in Europe to international practices. The Urban Maestro Project-coordinated by the UCL and in partnership with UN-Habitat-“looks at the ways European cities are being designed and financed, focusing on innovative ways of generating and implementing urban spatial quality”. The three research studies-although carried out in different scientific contexts-have in common some objectives which constitute the general framework of the study illustrated in this paper. Starting from these premises, the aim of this paper is to present the results of a study carried in the framework of the H2020 research project Urban Maestro, New Governance Strategies for Urban Design, of the ISMed-National Research Council post Covid research and of the INU-Italian Urban Planning Institute-Community “Public Space”, the latter two initiatives coordinated by the author. This both allowed again “in presence” social interactions, although in respect of the physical distance, and confirmed the importance for all people of these places. In Italy, the second country after China which was interested by the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, the reopening of all public spaces happened after two months of closure. Children, young and elderly people are those who mainly have had problems: to them, real life was negated in the time of their life in which this is more important. Children and young people have interrupted the education in presence to start that by internet adults started the smart work elderly begun to meet their son on the video of the computer (Karsten 2003 Zhai et al. Houses and balconies were used as the work and study scene, allowing people to go inside the private life (Carmona 2019 Madanipour et al. In many countries public spaces became completely empty and new urban landscapes have substituted the previous ones, transforming the private in public (Friedmann 2010 Francis et al. The Covid-19 pandemic emergency has interested the whole word and, although in different manner and measure, changed habits and use of people of places and cities (Abusaada and Elshater 2020 Babalis 2019 Carmichael et al. Accordingly, the update of some principles of the Charter was necessary to meet the new Covid-19 pandemic needs. ![]() The cases were selected because they follow many principles of the Charter and are then characterized by quality of design and flexibility of use. To achieve the goal of the research, an original method of analysis was created and about thirty case studies were collected, nine of which will be illustrated in this paper. In those events many principles were used for the New Urban Agenda discussion concerning quality of public spaces. The Charter of Public Space was adopted during the second Biennial of Public Space held in Rome in 2013 and presented at the Quito Habitat 3 Conference in 2016. The objective is to identify the relationships between theory and practice of the Charter of Public Space after 10 years of its creation, and verify its validity, in particular, in this Covid-19 emergency period. ![]() Starting from these premises, the aim of this paper is to present the results of a study carried in the framework of the Horizon 2020 research project Urban Maestro, New Governance Strategies for Urban Design, of the ISMed-National Research Council post Covid research, and of the INU Community Public Space, the last two initiatives coordinated by the author. This allowed again “in presence” social interactions, although in respect of the physical distance, confirming the importance of these places for all people. In Italy, the second country after China which was interested by the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, the reopening of all the public spaces happened after 2 months of closure. Children, young and elder people were those who mainly had problems: to them, real life was negated at the time of their life in which this is more important. In the lockdown period, cities and public spaces became completely empty and new urban landscapes substituted the previous ones, transforming the private in public. The current Covid-19 pandemic has interested the whole word, changing habits and use of places and cities.
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