An experiment of the use of public space for activating the city center

The quality of urban space in terms of walkability can be assessed taking many parameters into account, such as the presence of sidewalks, their density and continuity, appropriate technical parameters as well as the presence of greenery, squares, parks, which create the environment for pedestrian traffic. The lack of travel barriers, the possibility to shorten the route, travel safety and security, the presence of street furniture, shops and services are also significant. This article concerns some of the above described factors and presents selected research results on the use of space in city centers of several Polish cities – Kraków, Gdańsk, Szczecin, Warsaw, Gdynia, Wrocław and Poznań as well as the results of an analysis on the friendliness of this space for pedestrian traffic. The first phase of this study was to determine the share of public space within the analyzed city center areas, and then define areas used as roads, infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists, squares, green areas, parks and public courtyards. The balance of the used space was created for each researched area, and the space dedicated to pedestrian traffic was additionally analyzed in terms of the presence of obstacles as well as sidewalk location. The analysis results prove that that greatest amount of the public space is located in the city center of Poznań, and the smallest in Kraków. Warsaw is characterized by the greatest and Szczecin by the smallest percentage of the pedestrian infrastructure. Szczecin dominates in terms of the share of roads in the downtown area, Wrocław in terms of squares and Gdańsk – public courtyards.

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PEMAKNAAN RUANG TERBUKA PUBLIK TAMAN NOSTALGIA KOTA KUPANG

ARTEKS Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur ◽

10.30822/artk.v2i2.150 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 149

Author(s):

Yoseph Liem ◽

Reginaldo Christophori Lake

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Open Space ◽

City Center ◽

Public Park ◽

Public Open Space ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

The City ◽

Descriptive Method ◽

Initial Concept ◽

Made In

Taman Nostalgia Kota Kupang menjadi salah satu ciri kota Kupang sebagai satu-satunya taman yang cukup representatif di kawasan Kota Kupang. Namun jiwa tempat merupakan kekuatan nonfisik yang mampu membentuk kesan dalam kota. Apakah taman Nostalgia berhasil memberi makna sebagaimana konsep awal perencanaan dan pembangunannya guna membawa manfaat yang luas bagi Kota Kupang dan warganya. Oleh karena itu, tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui sejauh mana pemanfaatan taman Nostalgia sebagai ruang publik dan bagaimana maknanya bagi warga kota. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Pengamatan dilakukan diruang taman pada waktu-waktu yang telah ditentukan untuk mendapatkan gambaran pola pemanfaatannya. Adapun hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pemanfaatan ruang terbuka publik taman Nostalgia masih belum maksimal sesuai konsep awal, dimana tujuan pemanfaatan taman pada skala yang lebih besar belum tercapai ditandai dengan belum berhasilnya upaya menjadikan taman sebagai paru-paru kota/hutan kota dan belum memberi makna yang demokratis bagi pengunjung taman sebagai ruang terbuka publik yang bebas dan bisa diakses oleh semua warga terutama oleh pengunjung lanjut usia dan balita.Kata kunci: pemaknaan, ruang terbuka publik, taman nostalgia Title: The Meaning of Public Space of Kupang City Nostalgia Park Kupang City Nostalgia Park became one of the characteristics of the city where the park is located in the city center and became the only representative representative park in the city of Kupang. But the soul is unreliable. Is Nostalgic Park able to give meaning to the initial concept of planning and development in order to provide broad benefits for the city of Kupang and its citizens. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to know the extent to which Nostalgia parks as a public space and how its meaning for the citizens of the city. This research was conducted by qualitative descriptive method. Observations were made in the park room at predetermined times to get an overview of the utilization pattern. The results show that the utilization of open space Nostalgia public park is still not maximized according to the initial concept, where the purpose of utilization of the park on a larger scale has not been integrated with the unsuccessful efforts to make the park as the lung of the city / forest city and has not given a democratic meaning to visitors park as a public open space that can be accessed by the visitors. Keywords: meaning, public open space, Nostalgia park

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Parameters for Public Space Architecture. Informal Commerce Dynamics, as an Opportunity to Stimulate Urban Scenarios. Case Study Cali-Colombia

Modern Applied Science ◽

10.5539/mas.v12n8p27 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (8) ◽

pp. 27

Author(s):

Gustavo Arteaga ◽

Edier Segura ◽

Diego Escobar

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

City Center ◽

Interesting Phenomenon ◽

The Public ◽

General Terms ◽

The Social ◽

The Government ◽

Space Architecture ◽

The City

In the last decades, the occupation of the pedestrian routes and in general of the public space in the city center of Cali Colombia, have been evidencing diverse phenomena, which to a great extent respond to the accelerated growth of the urban population, where the migrations that have occurred in the interior of the country (fruit of the social conflicts of the last decades), have particularly marked the realities. In Cali, on 10th and 15th streets, near the Government Building, the Palace of Justice and the Municipal Administrative Center - CAM, the public space in general terms has been stressed in a particular way, which has generated conflicts in the surfaces designed for the pedestrians, since they are occupied by vendors in the midst of the informality routines, forcing the pedestrian to use the automobile tracks being a notorious and interesting phenomenon, when observing the factors that produce it and using them as parameters in the design of architectural spaces that contribute to improvement.

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The Politics of Public Space

Classical Greek Oligarchy ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691174976.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Matthew Simonton

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Classical Period ◽

Special Relationship ◽

City Center ◽

Motivating Factor ◽

The City ◽

Civic Space

This chapter examines the politics of public space in Classical oligarchies. The Greek elite had always claimed a special relationship with the city-center, often to the exclusion of those deemed “outsiders,” and controlled the polis's central political organs. With the introduction of a democratic constitutional alternative in the Classical period, fear replaced snobbery as the primary motivating factor behind oligarchic approaches to public space. The chapter first traces Archaic elite thinking about access to central civic space before discussing the strict division between the central spaces of the city (polis, astu), controlled by the oligarchy, and the broader countryside (chōra), in which the demos will be allowed to live. It also considers two strategies in which oligarchs responded to the threat posed by public space: expulsion and dispersal. Finally, it describes clientelism as a means of oligarchic control of civic space.

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Greening and opening the public space of the Nile banks. A demonstration case study in Maadi, Cairo

The Journal of Public Space ◽

10.5204/jps.v3i1.317 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 31-48

Author(s):

Amir Gohar

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Phoenix Dactylifera ◽

Public Access ◽

City Center ◽

The Public ◽

Local Residents ◽

Military Facilities ◽

Or Organization ◽

The City

The Nile, in general, and particularly in Cairo, is an ecological, cultural and social corridor that is not yet fully utilized. The 2011 Cairo workshop “Connecting Cairo to the Nile” identified the potential to increase accessibility to the river, suggested longitude trail system, proposed connecting the waterfront with adjacent neighborhoods and proposed expanding the ferry system. I studied a 2-km reach of the east bank in Maadi, a wealthy suburb about 10 km upstream of the city center, with relatively greener banks, availability of resources at the district level, higher awareness of local residents, physical setting allow for banks re-use, existence of community organizations (i.e. Tree Lovers and Midan). Findings of fieldwork and interviews show that: (i) species of native vegetation found are Phoenix Dactylifera, Jacaranda, Cortedarea and Papyrus alba; these are concentrated along 115 meter in southern part of the study area. (ii) Public access was categorized into: public space (accessible), private or semi-public space (accessible with conditions), and prohibited (inaccessible). Along this representative stretch of the Nile, the public access was limited to 16%, the private or semi-public makes 29% and the prohibited zones are 55%. (iii) Boating operations found to be in three categories, floating hotels (Nile cruises), motor boats (including ferries) and sailing boats, all are scattered along the banks without an overall plan or organization, which affects water flow and block public access to the banks. To better develop the banks, I recommend (i) maintaining existing riparian vegetation and expand it to other areas with healthy banks or planted nurseries, (ii) connecting open public spaces to create a pleasant walking trail along the banks in addition to improving public access by relocating government buildings (such as the police or military facilities) and facilitate access to the river for general public, (iii) reducing the anchoring points to two locations and redistribute boating operations to group all motor boats to use the ferry anchoring points and all the sailing boats to use Al-Yacht club marina.

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The Meaning of Public Space of Kupang City Nostalgia Park

ARTEKS Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur ◽

10.30822/arteks.v2i1.48 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 149-158

Author(s):

Yoseph Liem ◽

Reginaldo Chistophori Lake

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Open Space ◽

City Center ◽

Public Park ◽

Public Open Space ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

The City ◽

Descriptive Method ◽

Initial Concept ◽

Made In

Kupang City Nostalgia Park became one of the characteristics of the city where the park is located in the city center and became the only representative representative park in the city of Kupang. But the soul is unreliable. Is Nostalgic Park able to give meaning to the initial concept of planning and development in order to provide broad benefits for the city of Kupang and its citizens. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to know the extent to which Nostalgia parks as a public space and how its meaning for the citizens of the city. This research was conducted by qualitative descriptive method. Observations were made in the park room at predetermined times to get an overview of the utilization pattern. The results show that the utilization of open space Nostalgia public park is still not maximized according to the initial concept, where the purpose of utilization of the park on a larger scale has not been integrated with the unsuccessful efforts to make the park as the lung of the city / forest city and has not given a democratic meaning to visitors park as a public open space that can be accessed by the visitors.

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The Changes in Character of the City Center in Sofia

10.35483/acsa.intl.1995.37 ◽

1995 ◽

Author(s):

Maya Nanitchkova-Ozturk ◽

Keyword(s):

Economic System ◽

Public Space ◽

Public Life ◽

Value Systems ◽

Spiritual Needs ◽

Power Structures ◽

Social Significance ◽

City Center ◽

The Public ◽

The City

This paper aims to provide insight into the repercussions of the recent changes in power structures and economic system in Bulgaria on the architectural features of public spaces in the city center. Within the general instability and confusion, increasing deterioration of the public domain is observed and this is interpreted as a field of opportunities through which the meaning of architectural environment as support of public life and its social significance could be regained. Whether and how this potential can turn into quality depends on a variety of factors, some of which are suggested as areas of inquiry. These include value systems of the society and the architectural practice respectively and their relationship. The architectural environment cannot fully determine the public life of a city, rather it can support the attainment of the practical and spiritual needs of people, expanding experience while allowing for dwelling. In a general condition of confusion and deterioration observable in almost every aspect of life in Bulgaria resulting from the fragmentation of power, the change of the economic system and the instability of values, the weight of responsibility concerning the qualities of public space tends to shift. It is important to identify the changing features of public space in relation to the forces effecting them. Thus directions of inqulry into conditions promoting positive developments could be recognized in terms of aspects of cultural wealth of the society as well as in terms of reassessing the role of the architect-planner.

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Future Housing Identities: Designing in Line with the Contemporary Sustainable Urban Lifestyle

Buildings ◽

10.3390/buildings11010018 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 18

Author(s):

Ana Nikezić ◽

Jelena Ristić Trajković ◽

Aleksandra Milovanović

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Urban Regeneration ◽

Urban Housing ◽

Place Identity ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

City Image ◽

City Center ◽

The Impact ◽

The City

Over the past decade, urban housing typologies have evolved from being a feature of modern life to an essential postmodern issue, questioning future housing identities. One of the ways in which architecture can become engaged in this ever-changing process of urban regeneration is to challenge the inherited traditional housing typologies with the newly recognized values of contemporary lifestyle. This paper presents research and design aimed at exploring contemporary sustainable urban lifestyles as a resource for positioning housing structures as cultural urban infrastructure. The main focus of this study is design principles and strategies for generating future housing identities in accordance with sustainable urban development and sustainability of life in urban areas. It is about finding housing conceptual models for an interaction between housing and identity as a response to the impact of increased cities, changed lifestyles in contemporary cities and the requirements for the preservation of the city image and the public space within the housing areas in the city center. The main goal of this study is to understand whether and how an architectural design can preserve a sustainability of life within the city center and become a valuable agent of place identity in the process of urban regeneration. The paper indicates that the contemporary development of society requires a new architectural paradigm, in which lifestyle and architecture create a unique elastic open-ended system with the ability to adapt and change over time and throughout the place.

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PEMAKNAAN RUANG TERBUKA PUBLIK TAMAN NOSTALGIA KOTA KUPANG

10.31219/osf.io/khy52 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Arteks Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur ◽

Yoseph Liem ◽

Reginaldo Christophori Lake

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Open Space ◽

City Center ◽

Public Park ◽

Public Open Space ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

The City ◽

Descriptive Method ◽

Initial Concept ◽

Made In

Title: The Meaning of Public Space of Kupang City Nostalgia ParkKupang City Nostalgia Park became one of the characteristics of the city where the park is located in the city center and became the only representative representative park in the city of Kupang. But the soul is unreliable. Is Nostalgic Park able to give meaning to the initial concept of planning and development in order to provide broad benefits for the city of Kupang and its citizens. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to know the extent to which Nostalgia parks as a public space and how its meaning for the citizens of the city. This research was conducted by qualitative descriptive method. Observations were made in the park room at predetermined times to get an overview of the utilization pattern. The results show that the utilization of open space Nostalgia public park is still not maximized according to the initial concept, where the purpose of utilization of the park on a larger scale has not been integrated with the unsuccessful efforts to make the park as the lung of the city / forest city and has not given a democratic meaning to visitors park as a public open space that can be accessed by the visitors.Keywords: meaning, public open space, Nostalgia park

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OPTIMASI LAHAN TERLANTAR MENJADI RUANG PUBLIK DI KAMPUNG KOTA; Studi Kasus: Lahan Terlantar Kampung Badran RW. 09, Yogyakarta

Jurnal Arsitektur KOMPOSISI ◽

10.24002/jars.v11i5.1295 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 217

Author(s):

Wiliarto Wirasmoyo

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Public Spaces ◽

City Center ◽

Open Spaces ◽

The Public ◽

Inappropriate Use ◽

Space Design ◽

Almost All ◽

The City ◽

Public Space Design

Abstract: The urban kampong is a phenomenon created by the uncontrolled growth of the city and the inappropriate use of land. The city of Yogyakarta is known as a city of culture and tourism, inhabited by communities living around the city center. The area around downtown Yogyakarta has a high population density, so that almost all roads and rivers are filled with settlements (kampong), leaving a small portion for urban open spaces. Kampung Badran is a kampong-kota located in the center of economic activity of Yogyakarta city. Uncontrolled land use in the kampong Badran produces displaced space among the houses. The effort to transform displaced space into public spaces is an alternative to creating public spaces for citizens. The purpose of the research is the direction of optimization of multifunctional public space design that is suitable with the needs of Badran villagers. The results of the design optimization of displaced space were positive, that is, the public space became active, increased in quality and beneficial to the citizens because it suited their needs.Keywords: urban kampong, displaced space, public space, optimization.Abstrak: Kampung kota merupakan fenomena yang tercipta akibat dari pertumbuhan kota yang tidak terkendali dan pemanfaatan lahan yang tidak sesuai peruntukan. Kota Yogyakarta dikenal sebagai kota budaya dan pariwisata, dihuni komunitas masyarakat yang tinggal di sekitar pusat kota. Kawasan sekitar pusat kota Yogyakarta memiliki tingkat kepadatan penduduk yang tinggi, sehingga hampir semua tepian jalan dan sungai terisi permukiman (kampung), dan menyisakan sebagian kecil untuk ruang terbuka kota. Kampung Badran merupakan kampung-kota terletak di pusat kegiatan ekonomi kota Yogyakarta. Penggunaan lahan yang tidak terkendali di kampung Badran menghasilkan lahan-lahan terlantar di antara rumah-rumah warga. Upaya mengubah lahan terlantar menjadi ruang publik merupakan alternatif menciptakan ruang publik bagi warga. Tujuan penelitian adalah arahan optimasi desain ruang publik multifungsi yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan warga kampung Badran. Hasil optimasi desain lahan terlantar ternyata positif, yaitu ruang publik menjadi aktif, meningkat kualitasnya dan bermanfaat bagi warga karena cocok dengan kebutuhan mereka.Kata kunci: kampung kota, lahan terlantar, ruang publik, optimasi

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