Özet:

People have constituted open or closed spaces at the direction of wish that being together and gathering in the city. Every city has urban spaces that living shared life in regularly way. These spaces, have important functions at the city. Primary urban open spaces that come out in the form of square, to be reflecting the culture of the city that making contact with past and the future, are cultural spaces. Historical city squares; have became one with important events that have been lived at the history and being in the city. Squares that take part in urban open spaces, have different structures and functions according to natural, cultur-al, social and economical characteristics of every country and of every city. Changes in social, economical and cultural values, also at population and technology can be observed in urban places. As a result of this, functional and physical characteristics and situation of squares differentiate in themselves In this study, positions, functions, equipments of squares in urban landscapes, as a part of urban open spaces, their continuums between the past and today, and the contribution to urban life, design and planning criteria have been examined.

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