DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC & PRIVATE SPACE

Gender Roles/Private & Public Space - Shopping - Behavior

Gender Roles/Private & Public Space - Shopping & Behaviors

Introduction

The issue of public space has been debated since the '60s, by experts from various fields. At the same time, new types of spaces semi-private or semi-public appear as the quintessential backdrop of urban life and family: shopping, leisure spaces of private condominiums, house receptions, etc. This means the privatization of public life in contrast to Publicity or privacy. It has become common to claim that public spaces, parks, and historic centers within the cities deteriorated and died or are dying. The process of degradation or death followed a phase of gradual divestment of the States in planning. Soon, both were accepted as accomplished facts. In contrast, it has been seen that a number of initiatives in several cities in using the partnership between the public and private spheres to revitalize or revive public space creatively. However, as is known, the decline of public space is far from specificity. Since the sixties, architects and planners have been discussing the issue, including placing it at the heart of the proposals that have called New Urbanism. However, changes have been seen in the shopping trends, as the paper will demonstrate following changes in the trends and behaviors of shopping and socializing.

Discussion

In this paper, the intent is to discuss the issue of public space surpassing the size and socio-economic policy. Firstly, the discussion aims to highlight the current redefinition of the concept of public and private space, followed by a deep socio-cultural change. To the extent, following the trend of a more general inversion: a public life being privatized while private life becomes publicized. The access mechanisms control explicit and non-explicit, visible and invisible barriers, visual codes, linguistic and other. Moreover, the sociability arising from use, attitudes of groups, and individuals, isolation versus groups.

The Issue of Public Space

It is important to understand the space issue that weather it has declined or is in the phase of redevelopment. It could be said that, in large part, concerns about the loss of vitality of traditional public spaces took place in parallel with some criticism of the proposed modernist urbanism and especially the use of tools for rationalization of urban space. In the sixties, questions were raised as of the need for living spaces and symbolic meanings. For if, some estimated that the problem was purely economic and that only naive architects believed in the power of space to create social interactions, others, on the contrary, believed in the capacity of urban settings to generate or facilitate forms of social interaction more or less valid. Moreover, the case in this regard discusses that the public spaces designed in today's time are mannered in a way that accommodate attraction towards woman and shopping is more familiarized to women.

The fact is that, first, there was in the United States to an entire movement endeavored to re-urbanize the architecture. The pattern of urbanization predominantly suburban American, as is known, differs largely from the European standard. In Europe, a standard townhouse is commonplace, ...