Liveable cities of the future require a re-reading and re-thinking of space to find new modes of sustainable, efficient and integrative distribution of urban spaces to ensure a social-ecological and inclusive environment. 

SSSEIC provides an innovative tool for reconceptualizing urban public space. The fundamental premise for this is that we do not consider public street space on its own, i.e. detached from the buildings and systems surrounding it, but that we see, analyse, investigate & treat streetscapes as an immanent part of the urban parterre (which is the fabric of streets, building ground floors, souterrains & courtyards together).

Not only since the beginning of the present crisis surge (health, climate, economic, political etc.), various disciplines have been researching urban public space with the aim of (re)designing it to enable the mixed, inclusive, climate-neutral, circular, compact city (i.e. 15mC). There are already a large number of useful manuals on the reorganisation of urban street space. But they all deal exclusively with the street space itself, as if it were not part of a larger entity that we experience as city or more precisely as URBAN PARTERRE. 

Based on the Urban Parterre Modelling UPM approach, a completely new representation and hence the possibility for a new systematisation of public street space is undertaken. SSSEIC thus offers a fundamental, hitherto non-existent basis for any further inter- and transdisciplinary examination of urban space.