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Urban Open Spaces: Importance & Impact

Urban open spaces include parks, green spaces, and other open areas that are commonly open to the public for recreation. While urban open spaces may provide active recreation like sports, they also enable passive recreation and a reprieve from the urban environment. Traditional urban public spaces like streets, squares, and parks serve both instrumental functions by facilitating transportation and commerce, as well as expressive functions by enabling social interaction and participation in community life. The provision of public spaces is an important social characteristic of cities as it allows for interaction between strangers, political debate, and psychological growth through diverse contacts.

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Urban Open Spaces: Importance & Impact

Urban open spaces include parks, green spaces, and other open areas that are commonly open to the public for recreation. While urban open spaces may provide active recreation like sports, they also enable passive recreation and a reprieve from the urban environment. Traditional urban public spaces like streets, squares, and parks serve both instrumental functions by facilitating transportation and commerce, as well as expressive functions by enabling social interaction and participation in community life. The provision of public spaces is an important social characteristic of cities as it allows for interaction between strangers, political debate, and psychological growth through diverse contacts.

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In land use planning urban open space is open space areas for
"parks", "green spaces", and other open areas. The landscape of
urban open spaces can range from playing fields to highly
maintained environments to relatively natural landscapes They
are commonly open to public access however, urban open spaces
may be privately owned. Areas outside of city boundaries, such as
state and national parks as well as open space in the countryside,
are not considered urban open space. Streets, piazzas, plazas and
urban squares are not always defined as urban open space in
land use planning
In my childhood I seen many public spaces in my city and near
my homes. later changes on land use pattern due to rapid
urbanization and industrial growth it get disappear and I visited
many cities in India in that many Cities are good in public spaces
like Gandhi nagar, New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune In Tamilnadu like
Chennai Coimbatore are good examples for the public spaces. At
metropolitan scale, cities growth leads to the sprouting of new
cities inside the city, especially due to large urban
developments. Urbanization occurs regardless of morphology,
solar exposition, hydrology and ecological systems, frequently
with no concern or respect regulations and land use
management. Urban Planning tries to achieve solutions
compatible with human needs and environmental requirements,
in order to change this situation inherited from industrial
revolution and other sequence developments.
Urban public spaces have a considerable influence on the picture
of cities and are of great importance for the urban culture and
city life. Traditional urban public spaces including streets,
squares, and parks have two major social functions: instrumental
and expressive. The former role ensures a physical link between
buildings and land uses and sustains the marketing,
manufacturing, administrative, and transportation activities of the
cities. The latter facilitates a link among people, facilities,
communication and interaction, thus serving to bind together the
social order of local community by creating a locus for randomize
social interaction, including recreation, conservation and
entertainment. Urban open space is often appreciated for the
recreational opportunities it provides. Recreation in urban open
space may include active recreation (such as organized sports
and individual exercise) or passive recreation, which may simply
entail being in the open space. Time spent in an urban open
space for recreation offers a reprieve from the urban environment
Participatory mainly it creates a social relationship with people
and make local resident relationship and encouraging the
government in decision making
The current crisis of public spaces emphasizes the following
common characteristics of the emerging post-modern city with

link information age communication system method Cities have


always been regarded as the fulcrum of human communication,
the place of possibilities and opportunity, either economic or
political argues that one of the most important social
characteristics of cities is the provision of public spaces in which
relative strangers can interact and observe each other, debate
and learn politically, and grow psychologically from diverse
contacts

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