SMALL SQUARES

The design of urban public space is fundamentally based on formulating thebest possible way to accommodate people and finding the optimalconfiguration that offers leisure areas, an oasis for contemplation or anideal meeting spot. In the last few years, this design area has undergonesome rather impressive development. An appreciable increase has been seenin both the degree of sophistication and the variety of resources used byarchitects and landscape artists when drafting their designs for theoutdoor common spaces being built today.