Reshaping the cityscape through small landscape designs

Abstract

The landscape-designs within the city need to fulfill a number of conditions in order to meet the essential purpose of increasing the quality of life and to contribute towards increasing the urban comfort. In the urban texture of Iasi city a multitude of abandoned, undeveloped, deconstructed public spaces can be found, which, besides a poor quality urban image and can become unsafe for the public. We will refer mainly to the spaces related to the pedestrian traffic and those located in their immediate vicinity, spaces of small dimensions, unutilized, without a precise destination, with a predominantly mineral structure and with constitutive elements (fronts, surroundings, pavements, constructions etc.) without special volumetric, architectural and artistic qualities, or even completely deconstructed. Through this paper we aim to identify such areas in Iasi and propose small landscape-designs who will increase the quality of urban space, will favor social contact, and will generate an improved image quality of unused and abandoned urban spaces.