Doing a small study on making of 'a public space' to 'place' and role of local culture and Urban Design in doing so. Understanding culture and its relation with Urban Design here is quite important in the first place, which I am finding quite difficult to do so right now. might be in the process I would be able to develop a perspective towards it. Getting guidance and viewpoints would be great.
Well to start of, I am proceeding with a few hypothesis..
1. Culture is an extension of habit or discipline from an individual to a group of people or society practicing it for mutual benefit.
2. Public ‘places’ tend to develop different activities due to involvement of various factors and participation of various stakeholders over a period of time. These activities associate themselves with built, open, shaded areas, movement, color, clothing, food, location and many such elements and develop as patterns, which grow with time. When such a pattern is accepted and practiced by many, it evolves into a ‘culture’ (generally accepted and appreciated by all).
3. Urban Design becomes a tool to work towards this making, helping cultural aspects & spaces to evolve above those patterns which are developed because of factors like lack of co-ordination, knowledge and sensitivity and mutual understanding of stakeholders.
Some time it is also related with the normative structure of the society which promote some pattern of thinking or i would say provide a platform to develop this thing. And our normative structure and cultural are play a cause and affect relationship in this regard.
Again, trying something here. It wouldn't have anything to do with Urban Design per se but you could read Brian Osborne on landscape and places. http://canada.metropolis.net/events/ethnocultural/publications/putinden.pdf There should be something in there that could answer your questions regarding how places evolves within a society, within culture.
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