The Study of Responsible Public Space Designing Components

Public spaces have a great capacity for developing social human aspects due to social interactions and participating in social life of cities. Responsibility of these spaces not only can develop social and individual human aspects but it also can improve person to person and person to place interactions. In this article, the aim was to achieve principles and indicators of designing responsible public spaces by applying archival study technique. Reviewing literature shows that there are different indicators that refer to different physical and activity aspects of public spaces. However, regarding those indicators from one hand and different aspect of place (Canter’s model) and human needs (Maslow’s model) on the other hand; a “responsible public space” can be defined by four main aspects. These aspects that have been discussed in this article include: Physical, activity, social and meaning responsibility each of which has its own special indicators.