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Al-Saaidy, H. Exploring the Classification of a Proximity System and the Dynamism of Space. Preprints2023, 2023071584. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1584.v1
Al-Saaidy, H. Exploring the Classification of a Proximity System and the Dynamism of Space. Preprints 2023, 2023071584. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1584.v1
Al-Saaidy, H. Exploring the Classification of a Proximity System and the Dynamism of Space. Preprints2023, 2023071584. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1584.v1
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Al-Saaidy, H. (2023). Exploring the Classification of a Proximity System and the Dynamism of Space. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1584.v1
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Al-Saaidy, H. 2023 "Exploring the Classification of a Proximity System and the Dynamism of Space" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1584.v1
Abstract
Today’s urban spaces face precipitous challenges and complications, which include the COVID-19 pandemic, urbanization, population growth, and climate change. Proximity plays an essential role in influencing the integrity of public spaces and urban environments, while proxemics studies people’s experience, and the benefits, of urban space, and is based on a behavioral system of activities that includes ‘territoriality’. There is a need to study the behavioural patterns of people in given situations with proxemic dimensions in order to sustain both human beings and the quality of urban space. However, people behave spontaneously within environmental settings and reflect each other’s responses, meaning it is important to distinguish between different cultures, which tend to respond in particular ways to the meaning of proximity. This suggests there is no universal indicator for phenomena such as crowding. The aim of this paper is to highlight the interrelationship between urban form and urban life. This study focuses on two patterns of activity - street life and social life - by adopting a descriptive-analytical approach to documentary and desk research. The findings reveal a vital distinction between social and public patterns of proximity, while other proximities, although critical, are not observed within interactions between people.
Keywords
Urban Form; Urban Life; Street Life; Urban Space; Proximity
Subject
Engineering, Architecture, Building and Construction
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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.