• Lalak Bhandari
• Ar. Smita Agrawal
• Ar. Thoudam Sudha Devi

In the global trend of urbanization, the communities, people, and places have been encroached on by communication technologies, thereby weakening the livability and quality of urban life. This causes urban environments to expand, creating lifestyle changes and, as a result, the use of public spaces. The friendly quality of streets began to disappear and the essence of the community got lost in the hustle of traffic. The implications of rapidly changing economic and social circumstances have become profoundly important in shaping how people use and form their societies. Placemaking is a method to enhance the comfort, safety, attraction, and vitality of public spaces to encourage people to engage in social activities. This concept is used to improve public spaces and to transform a space into a place. Urban plazas are one of the significant public spaces in an urban environment. Urban plazas are open public spaces that represent a city's identity as well as the cultural heritage of its citizens. Since ancient times, this has become a place where members of the community congregate and "urban life" occurs. The 'life' of plazas develops and evolves in response to the people's contemporary needs. Now people want to connect, get retreat from their hectic life and interact with the community. This is where the concept of "placemaking" occurs, to give spaces back to the people. This research paper investigates the issues in urban plazas that discourage people from using them and why this space fails to make it into a great place. The research has been done to find out the simple solutions for urban plazas to foster social life and how can space be transformed into a place. Also, to study parameters and principles which make a standard urban plaza into a great urban plaza. Case studies have been done on various urban plazas on the principles of successful urban plazas to evaluate and find out where they lack and the design solution will act as a design guidelines for future urban plazas encouraging more and more use of that place and encourage social interaction.

Placemaking, Urban plaza , Sense of place, Sociability, Community

"PLACEMAKING FOR AN URBAN PLAZA ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no.d1-d7, May-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105383.pdf

"PLACEMAKING FOR AN URBAN PLAZA ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no. ppd1-d7, May-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105383.pdf