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QUESTION 5: PARKS AND PUBLIC OPEN SPACES “The town planner needs to cater for a variety of levels of service for public markets.” Discuss this statement by listing the seven main categories of public markets and provide a brief description of the main feature(s) of each of these categories. [14 MARKS]

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I think the question is dealing with Categories of "'Public open spaces and Public Parks". If it is something else that you were looking for pls, comment and I will get back to you.

The seven categories of Public Open Spaces are

1) Neighbourhood parks

2) Sporting places

3) Town Squares

4) Coastal and foreshore nodes

5) Streets and verges

6) Urban farms

7) Urban Nature

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1) Neighbourhood parks - These are small local parks that are well designed, used primarily by locals, and have a range of facilities, often including playground equipment. Both design and location are critical in these sites becoming public places. They are generally located in residential areas, either low density suburbs or adjacent to medium and higher density nodes.

2) Sporting places - These are typically places where the primary use is for a specific organised sports or active activity. In Australia, it typically includes ovals used for football (AFL) and cricket, but also rectangular fields for soccer and rugby. They can be a single oval/rectangular field or have multiple fields. When the fields are not being used for organised sport, they revert to broader community places similar to neighbourhood parks but at a larger scale

3) Town Squares - Town squares are often the main public places in major cities or towns where people congregate during the day, and where major events are held. They are typically located within the commercial/retail/business heart of the city, and usually there are few people who actually live nearby and who would call this place ‘local’. These places have many regular users who come from all over the city, who work in the city area. Other visitors are regular shoppers, tourists, or people who regularly/occasionally attend events held in the square.

4) Coastal and foreshore nodes - Coastal areas and other foreshores, especially rivers, are linear and extends for many kilometres (many 1000’s in the case of the coast). There are often significant nodes that are highly developed with infrastructure that facilitate public activities. These nodes often develop into significant places. The less develop areas of coasts and foreshores can be considered spaces rather than places.

5) Streets and verges - Streets are more likely to develop in neighbourhoods where the house is close to the path and front fences allow for a physical connnection. Older suburbs are more likely to have streets and newer suburbs to have roads.ection.

6) Urban farms - These are on public land whereas others are on private land owned by agencies that are active in the social and community spheres – for example churches and schools. Community members are invited to both participate in the agriculture and to visit and make use of the area. The individual plots are certainly ‘owned’ by those who work them, either through a formal leasing arrangement or informally in that the individuals who work those plots are protective of them.

7) Urban Nature -These are areas set aside primarily for conservation in urban areas but allow public access, either uncontrolled or controlled via fences, paths, signage etc. These aren’t nature reserves with high fences around them to keep people out: these are natural areas that are integrated into the urban fabric.

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