Abstract:
From the beginning of the urban history, the public realm has been the territory of the sociable people and has had diversity of form in different situations. The public urban space, which has a prominent historical background, is not exclusive for an extreme activity or specific form: but, it is the presence of the human being that not merely gives the meaning and identity to the urban spaces, but also provides some functional aspect for it. The communal rituals which play an important and crucial role in everyone’s social life, for the most part, happen in the public urban spaces which are regarded as people’s public territory. However, recently, the public spaces that were special for communal rituals are adversely affected by technology and numerous corollaries of modern life. Accordingly, the research is going to spell out the contemporary urban places bonded to communal rituals. In the first step of this research, some sundry types of contemporary public spaces and some diverse ritual activities are presented. The next step is about introducing some striking and telling rituals of world and their related urban spaces. The methodology used in the research is a combination of observational-descriptive method and qualitative content analysis. The most important resources of this research are existing documents which have written in term of the main topic or have published recently about it. Finally, taken as a whole, the most profound rituals of the worldwide are recognized based on contemporary urban spaces and analyzed according to urban framework factors affecting the mentioned rituals
Machine summary:
So, in this paper we are going to use both observational- descriptive method of research and qualitative content analysis one to recognize and analyze urban public spaces and their related communal rituals by a kind of naturalistic (or nonparticipant) observation.
Open public spaces should provide opportunities like leisure, comfort in natural environment, places to hold out special celebration and opportunities to breath in the city.
Public Space Activities Type (View the image of this page) Social Activities and their Linked Urban Public Spaces When outdoor areas are of high quality, necessary activities take place with approximately the same frequency – though they clearly tend to take a longer time, because the physical conditions are better.
Relationship Between Social Activities and Urban Public Spaces (View the image of this page) Ritual Activities In the sociology and anthropology, the ritual is defined as a ceremonial activity that is including sacred religious meanings.
General Celebrations of the World Celebration Country Activity/Environment Holding Space (View the image of this page) Fig. 1.
Accordingly, the following structure is extracted to show each communal ritual and their specific holding urban public places in the contemporary era.
Communal Rituals and their Linked Urban Public Places CONCLUSION Based on the main purpose of this study, we found out and recognized the contemporary public spaces related to the communal rituals to preserve nature and identity of each culture.
It means, rituals as social activities are based on both environment activity and their related urban frameworks that come out of geographical and cultural features of related countries or continents.