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People’s Perception of Revitalized Public Spaces: The Case of Independence Square, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author Gangabada, LP
dc.contributor.author Mahanama, PKS
dc.contributor.author Ranasinghe, G
dc.date.accessioned 2022-09-02T07:46:16Z
dc.date.available 2022-09-02T07:46:16Z
dc.date.issued 2013-12
dc.identifier.issn 2012-6301 Vol.05 Issue 01 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/18872
dc.description.abstract The increasing tendency of enhancing the quality of public spaces in developing countries, for example by promoting strong visual identity, is a crucial government polity instrument in economic and urban revitalization, while generating threats against the inclusive’ qualities of these public spaces. Concerning that matter this study was designed to fulfill two main objectives: Identify the different community perceptions regarding current public space revitalization actions that are going on in Colombo and to find out how it vary with different social levels in order to discover the social inclusive! exclusive nature of those particular projects selecting Independence Square as the case study. This paper concludes with the following results: The revitalization activities leads to further shrink the limited city space that has been used by the marginal groups while diminishing the Inclusive’ character of the public space and the city. Further, it challenges several current government polity assumptions concerning public space and give clues for urban planners and polity makers about the need of broad definition to the term “community” recognizing the so called marginal or problem groups are also a part of the community en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Architecture University of Moratuwa en_US
dc.subject Public Spaces en_US
dc.subject Urban Revitalization
dc.subject People Perceptions
dc.subject Social Inclusion
dc.title People’s Perception of Revitalized Public Spaces: The Case of Independence Square, Colombo, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.type Article-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.year 2013 en_US
dc.identifier.journal Research Journal of the Faculty of Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.issue 01 en_US
dc.identifier.volume 05 en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos 170-190 en_US
dc.identifier.email lahirutcp@gmail.com en_US


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