Questioning the Public Open Space Quality in Baykal District in Famagusta

Urban design deals with making connections between human, places, movements and urban configurations, milieu and the built original. The urban design is beneficial in many fields of place making, environmental proctorship, social balance and economic livability. In Famagusta, there is a problem to find which type of public open spaces are in their own characteristic and function. This study was focused on public open spaces in various viewpoints of urban design in the physical perspective in Baykal area in Famagusta, North Cyprus. Public open space which going to be analysis, classifying by the author to three parts: parks, streets, and squares. The major problem of this study is, some of the public open spaces areas haven’t any character for example, squares and streets, they all uses only for traffic function. And for parks there is not well designed to increase the life quality. This study focuses on applying urban design as a tool for determination of new designs and criteria to provide a fabric and attractive neighborhood to improve physical quality of public open spaces and also improve the physical characteristic of these public open spaces. The essential question in this part is, which part of public open spaces haven’t any character and how urban design can serve as a tool to improve the function of Baykal urban public open space. Generally, a public space is a place that is accessible to the public at any time of day, such as parks, street, squares and etc. These spaces all serve different functions, and can easily just be seen in spatial terms. Actually, this thesis is going to concentrate on street, square and parks because these three-public space is very important and essential. Lastly as a case of this study focused on Baykal district to assets public open spaces in terms of physical characteristic. In this research author classified the component of public open space to three part which are, square, street and parks and analyzing these component of each elements.