Fourteenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

This paper examines the factors that create good public spaces. It fills knowledge gaps in these spaces to help the government and others understand their success or failure. Vision 2030 and the Quality-of-Life Programme have promoted good urban design since 2016. Good urban design and placemaking guidelines resulted. Broad recognition of public spaces and quality regeneration of private and public sectors has shaped development decisions under the Quality-of-Life Programme. The path of Sayyida Zainab Al-Hilaliah is to design an environmentally friendly, entertaining, educational, and social hub that can inspire Makkah’s open public spaces. Mixed methods were used in the case study. Participants near the open public space completed a survey and semi-structured interviews for the case study. In creating successful places, the generic description of good placemaking non-tangible and programmatic performances outweigh aesthetics and form. Urban design objectives and principles should be detailed regarding intangible physical, economic, and environmental benefits to benefit public spaces and people’s lives. According to this study, public and private sectors should collaborate in placemaking to address the typology of public spaces that only deliver to the neighbourhood scale to avoid management, operation, and maintenance issues that the municipality will face due to overcrowding.