Hybridization as a design strategy to attract and retain people at short distance from each other in public open spaces: a necessary condition to socialize

• Autor(a) principal: Paula Barros
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/42978
• topic: Espaços públicos; Interação social; Planejamento urbano

The importance of urban design in influencing passive and active forms of social interaction has been verified in different types of public spaces. However, since most of environment-behaviour research was carried out in North America and Europe, the literature on how urban design may support copresence, and hopefully active forms social interaction, lacks a cross-cultural perspective. To make a useful contribution to the field of urban design, this empirical research examines the conditions that support passive and active forms of social activities in Liberdade Square (LSq), Raul Soares Square (RSq) and Estação Square (ESq). The fieldwork activities included unstructured and structured direct observations carried out in 2006 and 2016. The research adopted a quali-quantitative approach to analysis. The results shown the relevance of hybridization as an important design strategy to attract and retain people that experience highly contrasting urban conditions as part of their daily life.