M. Erfanian Salim and Osman Mohd Tahir
Urban open public spaces are supposed to meet peoples’ needs in contemporary thinking of urban design. This study posits that urban design can meet users’ needs while identifying factors affecting these needs. Thus, the study clarifies the environmental factors as a part of these affecting factors and specifically focuses on built-environmental factors. It also takes Kish Island in the south of Iran as a case, where assumed to enhance the open spaces and public zones due to its current plans of development. The methodology of this study first involved reviewing the comprehensive literature and documenting the concepts. The second it drives an experimental study including field observation and interview with the experts. The results of the study clarified the built-environmental factors that should be considered to meet people’s needs for urban open public space in Kish. Hence, some suggestions for design of these spaces would certainly contribute towards improving the quality of urban open public spaces in Kish Island. The final recommendation can be generalized to other cases with similar characteristics.
Keywords: Built-environmental Factors, Peoples’ Needs, Urban design
2012, published in Journal of Design & built (JDB), Malaysia, Volume 5