THE ROLE OF THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE URBAN SPACES IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FORMATION OF HUMAN BEING IN THE CITY OF BAGHDAD (NATIONAL PARK AND THE LIBERATION SQUARE AS EXAMPLE)

Abstract

Cities in the world were formed by the compatibility and integration of the physical characteristics of the urban environment from buildings and urban spaces and methods and related environmental and economic requirements and other psychological characteristics of individual and community related to the culture of communities and the behavior of its members and the associated customs and traditions. The relationship between human and his environment in the formation of the urban environment is an important factor in its success and neglect leads to abandoned environments that encourage negative behaviors and reflect on the human and thus on society, it is the human who forms his environment and therefore they constitute. What we are witnessing today is the loss of the importance of human in the design process and attention to the formal considerations of the urban environment with material relations that are oblivious to the psychological aspects and the minimal role of architecture as a material product of human needs. This is way its important to study the environmental psychology of human. The urban spaces are the most prominent appearances of the urban environment of cities, which measure of the liveliness of the city in view of the inclusion of all physical and psychological characteristics that reflect the privacy of communities in the world.