The publicness dimensions and pubic space : University of Baghdad Centre of urban and regional planning for postgraduate studies

Abstract EN

Public space is one of the most significant components that constitutes our cities due to its being as a collector component of everyday life activities and a motivator that activates these activities.

It is incomprehensible notion and can’t be tabulated within a clear and explicit scope due to the multitude of concepts associated with it.

According to that, the research problem has been defined by “the vagueness of this notion with the existence of knowledge gap in interpreting it”.

So, this paper aims at interpreting the notion of public space by analysing the publicness dimensions of it as it assumes that “the ability to understand the notion of public space by exploring the interpreted dimensions of its publicness”.

To achieve that objective, this paper has to demonstrate the notion of public space and its related terms in its first part to go on with classifying public space which will reveal some ambiguous types of public space that are not truly public.

Then the study will review some studies which analysed the notion of public space according to the notion of publicness to extract its dimensions, ending this research with a number of conclusions and recommendations.