Small and Interconnected. Keywords to address future urban open spaces challenges

In Small and Interconnected, three authors from diverse scientific and design backgrounds contribute to the ongoing debate on effective strategies for making open spaces more strategic in addressing our cities' challenges-outlining. A new open space model to mend fragmentation, preserve natural resources, reduce the heat island effect, and maximize existing environmental quality. Through intense collaborative exchange, they gauge fundamental references and principles to draw the contemporary need for designed open spaces through an incremental methodological approach.  Through a series of design experiences, addressing inflections, divergences, and continuity, highlighting them in the design process and making them legible, they project the emergence of a new model capable of providing functional flexibility, diversified responses for the community, allowing for the unfolding and experience of "life between buildings".