The Importance Of Public Spaces

Urban planning is an important aspect of city life, especially in light of today’s dynamic economy and environment. With increasing levels of crime, pollution, and environmental degradation, many cities are looking for new solutions to solve these. Large influences on the ideas that are shaping urban planning today come from urban theorist, Jane Jacobs. Jacobs challenged the way urban planners, architects, urban designer and sociologist thought about cities. In order to solve “the kind of problem which cities pose”, Jacobs promotes the idea of the use of sidewalks includes three majors. It is about city sidewalk safety and sidewalk contacts. Jacobs wrote that “there must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street.” Through analyzing and observing such things as city streets and sidewalks, neighborhood parks within a city and what Jacobs refers to as “the four generators of diversity”, Jacobs has developed theories that can guide city planners, architects, urban designer and most

Public spaces are social spaces where social phenomena happens, different activities leading to different social relations and interactions. Spaces with own rhythms of use and regulations that one can discover or rediscover in different cultural context.10 steven To understand how architecture can activate public spaces through play to make social spaces, spaces for public life, this paper first investigates how architecture defines the nature of a public spaces with the possibility of engaging public into play. Then, the paper discuss how play can engage people to redefine spaces and find something that have in common with others. And finally, how people can obtain their freedom through playing in a space will be explored. To do so, the

Parking as described seems to be an afterthought. As stated it should be masked from the sidewalk, and laid out in a manner that it can be converted to other uses. Mainly they discuss off street parking, masked parking garages, and back alleys that should be no more than 24 feet wide max to include utilities, back garages, and trash

The author Jeff Speck is city planner and an urban designer. He is trying to save Americans lives by trying to make the city more walkable since automobiles have now become a great danger to the Americans. This book is more concerned with cars and buildings in order to achieve the goal of a walkable city. People are the lifeblood of the city and not cars therefore, in order to pull off the feat of ushering America to the urban century, there is need to prove to people that walkability is important and also that their actions and decisions will help will to improve this aspect.

How is public space altered? It is defined as the shifts that occur in the atmosphere. These shifts can sometimes be embarrassing, upsetting, and awkward. On the other hand, these shifts can be insightful, empowering, and inspiring. The outcome of the pivotal moments in life cannot be controlled because humanity does not have the power to control the circumstances around them. The 2011 tornado, the decision to become a Christian, and the moment I chose to join the Dream Team are pivotal points in my life where I altered the public space around me.

Walking through Oakley Station and its entirety draws confused glares from pedestrians as well as the confusion within the mind of the wanderer. Obviously, this is because Oakley Station is designed for cars, not people. Oakley Station’s sidewalks serve less of a utilitarian purpose and instead are there for looks. In other words, Oakley’s Stations sidewalks imitate urbanism while providing no real benefit to pedestrians. In The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs emphasizes sidewalks creating an engaged citizenry, while severely criticizing auto- oriented development. According to Jacobs, the three main uses of sidewalks are for safety, contact, and assimilating children. Understanding these three uses are crucial to understanding the criticisms of Oakley Station’s sidewalks.

Public spaces in Pompeii and Herculaneum had a range of uses, varying from entertainment centres, to meeting spaces, to political buildings. These public spaces also included centres that were used in everyday life for the Romans in Pompeii and Herculaneum, such as shops, restaurants, and public baths. Whilst there is a number of different sources relating to the uses of buildings, they are limited to physical artefacts, and consequently, some public spaces' use and purpose will remain unknown or guessed by historians and archaeologists.

Scholars describes Public Spaces as, “Spaces that are open and accessible to every person in a society, in particular its citizens” (Chen, Orum, and Paulsen 22). The place I call home is Coral Springs, Florida it has a variety of public spaces available to the community with open access. The public spaces utilized in my community are locations such as the local parks, gymnasium, open fields, and a variation of other location. These locations are either in walking or driving distance of my neighborhood. Coral Springs has a majority of the location that require transportation to reach a destination because of the wide mass of public space available. There is an empty parking lot across my condo and the city of Coral Springs use the free space

sidewalks are a place where people have the opportunity to get to know one another on a casual social basis, generating respectful acquaintanceships that enable civility while protecting private lives. However, after conducting my field research for the ‘Entrance to the Union Square subway’ station, I observed that although the subway station is a public area almost like any other sidewalk, yet not many people socialise or have conversations with one another especially at the entrance. Most interactions that would take place

Finding a space for parking in City Height proves difficult, as most are already taken, but I manage to navigate into a space in a neighborhood lined with houses and front yards. Walking onto University Avenue, I pass a vibrant collection of local businesses buildings such as tortillerias, one stop shop clothing stores, travel agencies, autoshops and supermercados painted in bright pinks, greens, and blues with Spanish banners. In my awe of all the colors, I almost bump into a fellow pedestrian moving fast down the sidewalk, and realize the heavy amount of pedestrian and bike traffic for an early weekday morning. My eyes rise above the single-story business buildings and lock onto a modern, multi-story, muted auburn colors rising above the

There were no areas for people to hang out, chat, or even socialize. Sidewalks are similar to a corridor where there needs some refuge in the path. There will be a need for an area of refuge that is adjacent to the sidewalk. By adding benches with planting of area in front of it then could be recognized as a place to be. Also by providing benches and metal canopies will attract individuals.

Often times there is a lack of seating, so we brought outside sitting to our city. Careful not to overcrowd the area or have a poor amount of seating. Another problem we have dealt with in our city is the shortfallings of gathering areas. People would complain that there were not enough places that they wanted or needed. After taking these complaints into mind we have added playgrounds, vending carts, bus stops, outdoor seating, and eye pleasing shops that serve food. We took away features that served no real purpose other than to take up space, and not allowing vehicles to take over the public spaces by adding crosswalks, sidewalks, and reasonably sized roads. Our city took the blank or boring parts of public spaces and designed and managed our precious spaces. Transit, bus, or train spots have all been located in areas that are convenient and where people want to use them. These are all improvement that our city, Apolis, made to our local public spaces.

Different from the historical cities, the size of contemporary city is larger than that of ancient city, which means it not allowed maintenance of the human dimensions (Doxiadis, 1964). In other word, people are not able to walk cross the whole city. However, nowadays city has a different meaning. A walking city tends to be defined as a high pedestrian movement. Melbourne has made impressive efforts to contribute to waking city. For example, well-functioning public space such as federation square, and arcades, lanes and pathway along the Yarra river were well maintained and opened up for pedestrian traffic (Gehl, 2010). Moreover, sidewalks were expanded, new pavements were added, and hard infrastructure along the sidewalk was replaced. Moreover,

The need of short blocks is described with the example of Manhattan, where the use of long blocks segregate walking citizens and isolate people socially as well as economically. She argues that frequent streets and short blocks are more valuable since they provide cross-use of the streets. Most shops are dependant on people passing by each day, and short blocks could control the passings and create a diverse and balanced income for them.

First of all, to start building a city an urban pattern has to be established, this will make the city look much more organized and well thought. A pattern can be chosen from a whole list of working patterns for a city. Establishing a grid is a common way of equally distributing the city. However, we want to keep in mind, that important buildings, such as businesses, and government buildings must be accessible to the public, but separated from the rest of the city. We have great examples of grids such as New York City, in New York, United States, or Mississauga City, in Toronto ,Canada. Although, when building from scratch it is not possible to leave aside what has already been built, a city indeed has to adapt to what is already existing, as well as to the new global economy, social and political trends, and new issues that arise in the new era, this also changes the structure and tradition of building and forming urban patterns. Using the existing patterns, combined with new ones, both patterns can collide and make new forms in city blocks. Results vary from city to city, but the essence is the same in all of them; old and new patterns coming together to create unplanned shapes, a new form of Urbanism, based on new and old patterns, aiming to satisfy the needs of the modern world. A great example is New York