Evaluating quality of City Square : a practical survey on Neshtiman park-Erbil City

Abstract EN

Nowadays there is a huge understanding to the importance of the public open spaces and green spaces infrastructure which provides a vital environmental services for their users, which considered as the main attraction point in every city.

One of these significant spaces is; squares which functions as one of the most important open spaces where people can exhibit many activities and events in the city, the „life‟ of squares evolves and changes according to the contemporary demands of its users and city cause ,each square has its own characteristics that recognized from other ones due to its relation to the local culture identity, all have to connect strongly within the evolution of Nishteman Square, throw analyzing and explaining the most important diversity factors that could effect on the usability of these spaces, how its designs effect the accommodation (to stay) for users, the study employs spatial analysis to show the assessment of square‟s physical design characteristics with people‟s different activities, which effect the social side of the users.

This study will focus on one of the important spaces in Erbil city due to its location to one of the most important significant value (the Citadel), gives the square a special identity and relative design factors that should be respected.

The findings reveal that square in order to be a successful open space it have to work on applying diversity of service which have a great impact on attracting people in, that constantly and permanently used, safety within a good looking landscape and daily maintenance would insist the impression to people to stay there, diversity of functions on the edges around the square gives a very high level of vitality to both the square itself as well as the people who visit this important liveliness space.