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Title	THE IMPACT OF AN URBAN SQUARE AS PUBLIC SPACE ON SOCIAL INTERACTION: A CASE OF VIETNAM
Paper ID	xfPQG
Author(s)	Phuong, Bui Thi - Hung, Le Ngoc
Abstract	An important, essential and typical public space of a modern city is a square. Similar to other cities in the world, cities in Vietnam also have had types of squares with different architectures, landscapes and histories of formulation, change and development. Different squares but they all are public spaces and open for social reactions of urban habitants and any people from other places. All people can come to squares to meet their communication demand including relaxing, entertaining, meeting, conversation or simply passing through the square as an open travelling space. However, an issue raised here is that cities are increasingly widening in the scope and the populace becomes more and more that squares seem to narrow and the social interactions are polarized into diversified small groups. This paper sets an objective to study and clarify a perception that the square is an open space for social reactions through that the people participate in the development of the cities. A fundamental research hypothesis is that the social reactions of the people in a public space such as square reflects a way mechanism and level of their involvement in the management of an urban social life in particular and social development in general.
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