ABSTRACT
Almost inevitably any urban public open space will be used at some time by somebody for some purpose. The activities that actually take place will depend on the space’s accessibility, the affordances of its design and on the predispositions of its users. The design is also inevitably a display enhanced or decreased by its nature as an environment and by the objects within it. The patterns of light and shade, movement of air, sounds and odors add or detract from what it affords people and its perceived quality. A square, its structure and what goes on within it, can also be something to contemplate for the sake of the intellectual review if it is regarded as a work of art.
