AI assisted the text and diagrams. The cover and 35 body images are AI-generated explanatory images, not d-ocumentary photographs. Five reference photographs are CC0 or public-domain images.

Why do people linger in some squares and hurry through others? AI Urbanism 1: Square explores public space through seating, shade, edges, daily rhythms, and the relationship between travel and neighborhood life. Across five parts and twenty chapters, it revisits published observations of squares around the world, comparing busy places with welcoming places and asking how cities can preserve opportunities to pause.

This English edition invites readers to look beyond photogenic scenery and notice the choices that make a square part of everyday urban life.