An Assessment of the User’s Satisfaction with Urban Public Spaces in Alsancak-Kyrenia region of Cyprus

Abstract

Urban public spaces meet people's needs in their living spaces. Nowadays, with the increase in rapid construction, cities are growing irregularly towards suburban areas, disregarding the importance of designing urban public spaces that cater to resident’s needs. For this reason, urban public space arrangements, which have a very important place in the settlement, need to be designed considering user satisfaction. In this way, it is important to create usable urban public spaces that meet user needs. At this point, when creating urban designs, it is necessary to provide event venues that will meet user needs and opportunities for organizations that aim to carry out these events. It can be argued that urban public space planning, design, and implementation in the district centres of the northern part of Cyprus are in adequate or insufficient. At this point, the Alsancak (Karavas) suburban settlement sample, which has recently shown rapid progress in construction and integration with the city, was selected. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between urban public spaces and user satisfaction in the Alsancak-Girne region. Additionally, the effect of space arrangements on user satisfaction was discussed within this research.