“SPACES FOR ALL†THE URBAN SPACES OF THE FUTURE

Abstract

Looking closely to some new urban planning approaches for the old and new residential tissue, we can observe that the tendency go on creating urban spaces for larger users groups. These proposals try to give back to the city population an important territorial feeling, urban identity and self respect, but also go on creating a new urban awareness.
Nowadays, the inhabitants of the cities give, more than ever, a big importance to the image of the city and to their urban or individual necessities. Therefore, the public space should be that one where people can meet, can socialize, can enjoy nature and can recharge with energy their bodies, minds and souls. As a result of a noticeable urban necessity of public spaces, our cities should be prepared to receive many changes, almost through the reduction of many environmental wastes.
In these new “spaces for allâ€, the mixing of the population with and without special needs, the mixing of the ages, of the different social-economical-cultural-ethnical-spiritual statutes, is the means to bring back in our cities the joy of tolerance and of inner–peace, to bring back the unmediated inter-communication. Also, the street became a new kind of common space created to be shared by pedestrians, bicyclists, and low-speed motor vehicles, able to ensure the safety to move, to stay and to enjoy.
The new urban virtues of these reanimated places will educate people and will restore all citizen identity, will restore their feeling of self-respect and also their responsibility towards the city and its aspects.