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