Research analyze the functional and social performance of the public spaces and
squares in the city of Lattakia, by studying the universal adopted principles and criteria in
this field. According to that, research define a functional and social req
uirements, which
could contribute to reach a criteria for evaluating the functional and social efficiency of the
public spaces in the city.
Research continue with an analytical study for a main public space in Lattakia city
( Yaman Square ) based on these criteria in order to determine the range of realization
these criteria by this space, which contribute to define the strength and weakness points of
the solution in this aspect.
Study concludes a set of results that define and describe the functional and social
performance of the public spaces and in the city of Lattakia. Finally, study propose some
recommendations that could contribute to treat the weaknesses and promote the strengths
in the process of the public spaces formation in the city of Lattakia.
The Study focuses on the contemporary planning applications in shaping the urban
structure of the residential areas in general and the spatial formation in particular,
according to a schematic structure that depends on classification of these space
s by kind,
function of these special formation and their distinguished characteristics.
The study focuses on the gradual scales of the formed spaces within the urban
residential structure according to their functions, starting with the external courtyards
surrounded by residential buildings whose construction in open space differs from the one
in closed space, according to the predominant climatic conditions, then we move to the
spaces of motorcar streets and pedestrians roads that have the dynamic and vitality
characteristic by the multiplicity of uses, the functions, and the changes of its design
structure. Spaces surrounding the public and service buildings form some special
distinctive structural points especially when they complement each other with the
surrounding buildings in architecture and volume.
The formation of aesthetic-visual image in the urban spaces and the visual
recognition mechanism divides the urban spaces into three principal types and discusses
the relationship between shapes, volumes and colors of the building that form the space
and visual sensation with the homogeneity and extension of space.
Then the research studies various samples of the urban residential structure of
Lattakia city and the spatial formation by performing general classifications of the urban
spaces forming this structure according to the type and function of each. Then, we
conclude the advantages and disadvantages of the schematic solution and understand the
reasons of the negative aspect to be avoided in future.
