Figure 54: Weekly night market provision

6.3.2. Create Open spaces as multi-use destinations

A great urban public open space can act as a safety valve for the city, in which people living in dense urban areas can find breathing room. While a poorly planned or maintained open space can be a place of fear and danger, thus repelling people, businesses, and investment. On the other hand, creating open spaces as public squares can be a source of civic pride, and it can help citizens feel better connected to their cultural and political institutions. Promoting the development of public squares with small retail or eating points will induce activity and will help develop healthy community relationships. Public squares will enable people to spend more time in the open spaces by inducing certain recreational activities, thereby making the spaces extremely sociable and lively and not leaving these spaces dead and vacant.

Figure 54: Plaza created for the community center; Source: Author

6.3.3. Build local economies through weekly or night markets

An informal public markets economy thrives in many cities around the world, but often chaotically — clogging streets, competing unfairly with local businesses, and limiting the hope of upward mobility to marginalized populations. Markets can, however, provide a structure and a regulatory framework that helps grow small businesses, preserve food safety, and make a more attractive destination for shoppers. Thus designing open spaces to also incorporate areas for public markets along with recreational features will not only contribute towards providing the local community with an opportunity for healthy revenue generation but at the same time, it will help in the development of these open spaces. market spaces will not only help improve the public realm of the area but at the same time will also allow for enhanced community interaction.

Figure 55: weekly and night market provision for community center; Source: Author