PROBLEM STATEMENT OBJECTIVES

Urban public spaces provide an invaluable

A CITY BREEZE
ENHANCING PUBLIC SPACE IN CASE
OF “AMORA GEDEL PARK”
role and contribution towards re-generation,
healthy living, social inclusion, and culture,
all leading to an improved quality of urban
life, but in the case of Hawassa city,
●The open space does not well planned and
does not provide a function to the community
they simply left it unplanned and
dysfunctional so these things should have
been given special attention
●There is a huge number of population who
lives in this urban area so, it might be hard to
find a place to spend time with family and
friends without payments and expected
quality besides there are no urban public
parks in the area which reflects the
community culture, ideology, and living style.
● To study the public open space in Hawassa city,
and to identify the reason why they left it
dysfunctional.
● To analysis which activities are performed in this
open space and which group of the community uses
it the most.
● To analyze the reason behind those spaces
becomes dead or dysfunctional.
● To produce design approaches to meet the lack of
functional and accessible urban public space.
● To recommend or propose some designs that solve
the above community problems

KEY FINDINGS
The main reason why some people use urban
recreational parks rarely is that services and *One of the benefits of urban recreational parks is
facilities at the parks are poor and poorly health but park in the study fail to fulfill this function
maintained. Lack of finance, professional of a park.
human resource, and absence of policies and *Lack of proper park planning and policy direction,
guidelines for service provision are the main weak regulatory and legislative frameworks,
problems that resulted in poor service and
facility. Therefore improvement should be Some challenges of the government administration are;
made to maximize their use. Finance issue
*There is no provision of designed Shades in Human resource
order to protect the users from harsh sun Cooperation with stakeholders and marketing activity.
and rainy climatic seasons
*There is no provision of any designed seats
on the park
*There is no enough service and facilities
that given in the study area
*There is no special guided tour or any other
tourist information available in the case
area.
*It is a local green park with endemic animals
and trees, but the area didn’t constructed to
entertain visitors and much likely risky to get
there even for local peoples.
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DONE BY MERON DEREJE HAILE