Chapter 3- LITERATURE REVIEW Workshops can be held in these areas, installation, green urban lab can be created around the island contrast can be created inside and outside the space like exhibitions, sit outs, creating a platform for community areas, play areas, artist areas where there can be exchange of different cultures. These spaces help the people to get out of their routine and get to know their identity through these spaces, they increase curiosity within the people to explore such spaces and creates a playful interaction space. They bring a lasting change within the people. In these areas there may be different people from different culture but they gather into one public space to interact.
3.4THE IMAGE OF A CITY KEVIN LYNCH The degree of a good city performance is determined by providing biological, psychological, social and cultural providing, required to its inhabitants. One of these requirements could be specified in order to determine which city is good Kevin lynch in his book summarizes these five elements which are also called as performance dimension which is one of the aspects of urban design. Vitality-the degree on which the city sustains to its essentials, biological performance of human beings this is support for our bodies which needs the essential nutrients and supplements which we get from food, water and air, these should be in sufficient supply in order to sustain life. Moreover, good settlement should be free from danger, poison and disastrous occurrences then it can support safety for its inhabitants. Sense-it is the degree in which people recognize and organize the city in their minds between the physical city form. it is the homogeneity between environment and observer. sense is the clarity which people perceive with themselves by looking at the city and having a clear idea of the space. it depends upon the spatial structure, culture, quality, current purpose of the observer, etc. Fit-it is the match between the actions(functions) and the physical (form) of the city. it is the requirement that how well does the spatial and the temporal pattern of a settlement matches the customary behaviour of its inhabitants. When there is a harmony between the spaces, the form and pattern of behaviours people feel URBANISM ALONG THE BRIDGE
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