Complete places and active inner city space – chosen issues of high quality public space creation. Case study of the downtown area of Poznan, Poland

Abstract

In the following article there is tackled a problem of high-quality public space creation. The author accentuates the importance of idea of complete places formation in terms of functional and spatial exigences as well as in social dimension. The public space is understood as the main compositional and semantic scheme of a downtown area. It is also the most crucial space where it is needed to develop interaction and social contacts. The paper presents chosen issues of high quality space creation within a downtown area of the city of Poznan in Poland.