Urban Public Spaces and Vitality: A Socio-Spatial Analysis in the Streets of Cypriot Towns

People’s Activities Related on Physical Environment of Public Plazas in China and the United States

“…The economic development also lead the urban revitalization, and it is so important that it influences economic, physical and social environment also with historical and cultural of the urban area (Ramlee, Omar, Yunus, & Samadi, 2015). Public spaces such as plazas make significant value within cities, people's needs from basic to complex are involved in the and affect people's life quality (Jalaladdini & Oktay, 2012). Plazas in the city with different location, adjacent streets, and special designs could decide how much people visit and the activities they conduct inside.…”

Volume 16 : 2018

“…But modern urban planning pays more attention to requirements of automobiles rather than pedestrians' needs. The development of modern highways and high-rise buildings destroy the traditional urban fabric and harm urban quality (Jalaladdini & Oktay, 2012;Ultav, Çağlar, & Drinkwater, 2015). Modernization adversely affected the key role played by traditional streets as a public space that enhances city appearance.…”

“…Accordingly, these spaces must be capable to contain diverse behaviour, uses and activities such as shopping, walking, conversation, using the facilities to entertain, relax or even passing the time as daily activities, and also periodic festivities and events (Jalaladdini & Oktay, 2012). The urban environment should be able to provide more services to vulnerable groups of the population to avoid them from being marginalised and forgotten.…”

Effective Instructions in Design Process of Urban Public Spaces to Promote Sustainable Development

“…However, in the following, the most important experimental studies related to the present study are expressed: Perovic and Folic (2012), by examining the social function of urban public spaces, have counted security, availability, regularly organizing, calmness, having meeting places and being able to walk, as the most important factors of them and characterized the lack of attractiveness, lack of visual beauty and visual disturbances, as the worst indicators [8]. According to the study of Jalaladdini and Oktay (2012), the most significant function of public spaces, from social perspective, is hiking and tourism value, which leads to vitality and vibrancy [9]. From Turel et al (2007) perspective, the most vital problems of urban public spaces are respectively: lack of walking possibility, pollution, insecurity, repairs and maintenance failure, traffic and socio-cultural problems [10].…”

“…In this period, many of public open spaces were ignored or lost their functions or faced with changing the prospects [8]. Recently, the public space, with the aim of moving towards a healthy urban environment, becomes the focus point of sociologists, geographers, political scientists and urban planners [9]. Therefore, public spaces are considered as social spaces, such as city squares, Plazas, parks and streets, which are open and accessible to anyone, regardless of their gender, race, age and economic levels, without any difficulties [13].…”