Ways of enhancing urban perspectives through the use of ornamental vegetal elements in the historical area Târgu Cucu from Iasi

Abstract

The concept of “Cities for People” 'is promoted by the urban planner Jan Gehl and involves the design of new urban settlements, or the transformation of the existing ones, into environments conducive to daily community activities. Whether we refer to the necessary activities or to the leisure ones, the city has the primary duty to provide favourable frameworks for these various manifestations. Since Antiquity, it has been considered that the city belongs to its people and their lives, this perception becoming in the 21st century an ideological current meant to improve the quality of urban life, through architectural, urban, landscape and artistic interventions. The subject of the quality of urban life has become a leitmotif to recent research in the field of urbanism and social sciences, promoting principles and methods aimed at both terms of impact on the human psychic and the environment. In the context of the urban environment of Iași, affected by the urban transformations of the last century, are suggested landscape interventions that would meet the quality criteria of a healthy public space, transforming the dull area into an attractive and dynamic one.