WHAT IS LOST SPACE?

Too many instances in today's urban planning are two dimensional, top-down planning without the
consideration of three-dimensional relationships between buildings and spaces and the people that
will inhabit them. Subsequently, what generally emerges are environments of vacant, unused 'anti-
space'. As designers we are faced with the reality of designing environments after-the-fact "cosmetic
treatment of spaces that are ill-shaped and ill-planned for public use to begin with." (Trancik, 1986,
p. 1).

THE CAUSES – LOST SPACE IN CITIES

1. Increased dependence on the automobile

2. The attitude of the architects of the Modern Movement toward open space.
3. Zoning and land use- policies of the urban - renewal period that divided the city.
1. 4.Unwillingness on the part of contemporary institutions to take responsibility for public
Urban environment.
4. An abandonment of Industrial, Military, or transportation sites in the inner core of the city.