The paper explores the re-thinking of designing public spaces in a pandemic era. One-half of
the world's population has been asked to stay at home and avoid public places as at that time.
What effect will the COVID-19 pandemic have on public space in the long run once the
restrictions are lifted? From this point of view this research investigates the main aspects
forming the future design of public spaces, especially in pandemic era to improve the quality of
life of these spaces and their users can use them safe. It focuses on the main aspects that form
public space designs, through literature review (Mathew Carmona’s book “Public Places-Urban
Spaces, The Dimensions of Urban Design” (2003) and Jan Gehl’ book “How to Study Public
Life”). Several questionnaires are distributed to assess these different aspects and their
dimensions and indicators to suggest a model for investigating and quantifying assessment of
the main aspects of future public space designs in pandemic disease time and the effect of
COVID-19 on public spaces. |
