Author : Vahid Bigdeli Rad and Ibrahim Bin Ngah

A physical space is needed to answer the social requires and create essential opportunities to gain social experiences; public space has a significant capacity to answer this aspect of human’s life in societies. Therefore, considering this significant capacity and emphasis on social aspect of a human and space, this article is going to survey the effective factors on preserving community and quality of sociability in public spaces.

Keywords: Public spaces, community, sociability, social interactions.

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.3,No.1 (March- 2013)