ABSTRACT
Public Space gradually becomes an absolutely necessary resource to a successful community in the new cities. It can provide lots of opportunities for people to meet and be exposed to their neighbours. This agrees with evidence of modern sociologists, who have proved that the strong social interaction between residents leads to a healthy community. However, these social connections and neighbour meetings often take place by coincidence or with active organising. In addition, the way of promoting the interaction among people in public spaces has been mainly ignored in many communities.
More recently, modern artists and architects reveal that arts and culture strategies can help to enhance the social form of the community by shaping the scene of its public space. Public art administrations, institutions, and cultural centres can play an important role in designing, managing, and planning these public spaces. Nowadays, artists are cooperating with landscape architects and city planners to design creative public spaces.
From this point of view, the study will display the meaning, the value, and the main characteristics of that new approach of designing to be part of the community’s collective identity and promote the community social interaction. Moreover, the result confirms a supposed relationship between a creative community vision of designing their public space and their social interaction in these places.
