Essay On Placemaking

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The public space is place of meeting, exchange, circulation and the expression of the inhabitants. It is by its nature the essential component of life in the city. It is also a territory in connection with other spaces in which it is inserted - the neighborhood, the district, the city-. It is the place of expression of a common culture within a distinctive aesthetic and technical framework. Any public space (place, avenue, fast track, parking, square, pond, lake…etc.) participates in the image of the city. They represent the city, with its essence and dynamicity.
The form of architecture is an honest and lively expression of past and present values, it expresses the identity of any society, community, or a nation. As the concept of identity in Architecture is based on a theoretical view which is that the elements, shapes and variant aspects of architecture reflect the lifestyle of the people and the society that produces it.
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Placemaking is one of the main key concepts that would be discussed furthermore in this paper. Placemaking is the term used in designing public spaces, while it passes functionality before aesthetics in a perspective of appropriation by the users of this new place. The placemaking consists of rethinking the public space according to the users so that they can reinvest it and anticipate the concrete problems related to its regular maintenance. This approach apprehends in an original way the design of public spaces. It comes out of the search for the "beautiful" and "decided from above" by placing the use and the users at the heart of the reflection. The approach consists of rethinking public spaces based on users ' experiences, current uses and expectations to propose management

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