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Urban Open SpacesOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The Public Plaza function is as an open public space designed to gather crowds at various events and is the springing heart of the city to different activities. The quality of life of people in urban areas in general, and public plaza particular, is the outcome of people interacting with the urban environment and its suitability to its function and user needs. In ancient times, especially in Arab cities, the space of the mosque and its plaza is the main, then all urban fabric built around it, markets, commercial centers, and other public plazas, squares, all of these spaces connected with each other with the main plaza. With changes over time and because of the rapid growth of Egyptian towns, which is represented in the increase in the urban population; increase the pressure within the city and its urban context; increase the building blocks and the deterioration of the urban environment components.
All of these changes lead to Shortage the public open spaces, deterioration of the public plazas. The quality of urban public space in general, and urban plazas in particular, has been a concern and a major challenge for designers in setting rules and principles to its layout and its design; functional and aesthetic. Urban, environmental, economic, and social aspects contribute importantly to the interaction between all of them and the urban context. In this matter Quality of Life “QOL” provides the theory and factors to analyses the relation between plaza design factors and QOL indicators.
The research presents how high-quality public plaza design contributes positively to people’s quality of life, and it aims to achieve public plaza design guidelines to develop plazas. The research assumes that the plaza development and its good design, which accommodate its user’s activity, raise whole city quality of life.
Which is presented by the researcher at the beginning of the study of urban public spaces and their types gradually until reaching public plazas and studying its history, design factors, factors of success of public space and factors of place making to reach elements through it we can design a successful open space , and then in the second chapter studying the quality of urban life, its concepts and its indicators ,third chapter, contains how the design factors of plazas affect the quality of life indicators , in order to reach a mechanism for evaluating public plazas in the light of life quality indicators. Second: An analytical study of public plazas experiences, international and local regions faced problems in its design, which affected the performance of the plaza and its function, but with development and finding solutions to problems ,its performance was improved and proved its success, and then the conclusion of other criteria added to the theoretical criteria for evaluating public plazas .Third, an applied study on a local model that was developed and evaluated according to the standards that we reached. Finally, the research ends up with results and recommendations of the study