International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 04 Issue: 04 | Apr -2017
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Overview: Social Spaces in Urban Areas Raj Kumar1 1Assistant
Professor, Accurate Institute of Architecture and Planning, Greater Noida, UP, India.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract: Currently, cities are undergoing a dynamic process of social and economic transformation, in which urban spaces is playing an increasingly important role. Within such a fast developing context, the nature of social spaces in our urban areas gets transformed. Social spaces are the mirror of society; it shows the cultural realm of a city. A space where a human being does not feel as an individual entity but rather a people get together and interact with other fellow being of either same cultural or ethnic background or of different cultural people. Though the nature of social spaces get transformed from era to era; as because the needs of the people changed from time to time. Keywords Old city, Urban, Spaces, Eco Spaces, Social Spaces, Physical Infrastructure, Governance, Sustainability, Quality of life, Transformation. 1. INTRODUCTION: The future of the human civilizations is going to be largely defined by the character of its future cities. This is especially important to reflect on at this point in time as humanity reached a special milestone this century by becoming a majority urban spaces. In 2007 for the very first time in our history, humankind has become a majority urban with more than half of the world’s population living in the cities. The phenomenal rate of urban growth increasing from 13% in the 1900’s to 20% in 1950, reached over 50% this decade. Human being are social beings, and thus species beings. As such, they clearly live a public life. It is true to say that possession of a public life is an essential sttribute of human beings. However, public lives vary in their styles and degrees. Evident diversity exists not only among different religions, nationalities and countries in a given period but also among different period of the same nationality. In India, urban age examined how the largest democracy on earth negotiates considerable urbanization and economic development. India’s urban society is experiencing the effects of increasing affluence coupled with persistent social inequalities and a scarcity of resources ranging from personal living space to transport and drinking water. Climate change and other escalating pressures further compound urban developments in india, making its urban agenda a global issue. 2. SOCIAL SPACE: Social spaces within the city are the places where local people gather, converse and rub together creating the intangible vibe and attitude of the city which you will long remember.The social space is the spatial implications of social institutions and is studied by socialists and geographers. The concept of social space, which we understood as being at once physical and conceptual. Social space is the realm in which the cultural life of society is enacted, but it is not a form of container of a virtually neutral kind, designed simply to receive whatever is poured into it. Instead, space is secreted by the society. It is produced by the pattern of social interaction, but also imposes itself on its users and thus spaces society. Space encourages and discourages certain forms of interaction and gives form to social structures and ideologies. Society and Space Relations: It is obvious that space has significance for everyday life; surprisingly; in historical and sociological studies of everyday life the spatial dimension is generally missing or at best is taken for granted ( Franzen 1992, 39). To study the relationship between society and space the city needs to be recognized as both a physical and a social entity and urban theory and practical need to connect these (Hiller and Vaughan 2007; Franzen 1992; Olsson 1998). According to Franzen, society could be studied spatially through the buildings of the city. The buildings include most of the important activities in society and though the buildings and the activities some of the basic foundations of the societal structing of space
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