Bulletin UASVM Horticulture, 69(1)/2012 Print ISSN 1843-5254; Electronic ISSN 1843-5394 The Aesthetic Values of Landscape Design Constanţa Carmina GHEORGHIŢĂ 1) , Mircea GRIGOROVSCHI 1) 1) Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Iasi, Bl. Dimitrie Mangeron no. 43 Iasi, 700050; carmina.gheorghita@tuiasi.ro. Abstract. Public spaces are the structural elements of any architectural environment, areas of social cohesion, spaces of coexistence, outbreaks of urbanity programmatically designed to attract all types of public, to reunite the citizens of the city and to improve the dynamics of the urban space; in one word, the city’s front window. The quality of urban space is primarily determined by the quality of the public areas belonging to the city, the areas that the city offers for common use to its inhabitants. The aesthetic of landscape improvements have benefic influences on the cultural and artistic education of citizens and on their moral well-being. This study aims to establish the aesthetic values generated by the structural elements of landscape improvements and their influences on human perception. Once the aesthetical values being identified, the paper tries to establish parameters for measuring the quality of public space, and in the end, aims to generate hypothesis whose final goal is to increase the attractiveness of urban space. Keywords: public space, aesthetic values, landscape improvements in urban space, quality of urban space, aesthetics of landscape improvements, attractiveness of urban space INTRODUCTION Urban landscape, cityscape, is born and then evolves within the city, the main place for architecture’s development. The buildings support a stylistic dynamic; traffic and pedestrian are also in a perpetual evolution in making their paths and in establishing their dimensions; various facilities, a multitude of objects of various shapes, colors and sizes, are in most cases all woven so they determines a living landscape (Grigorovschi and Răchieru, 2011). The city is not only the anthropic landscape, but also heritage, tradition, culture, daily, sounds, light and darkness, vegetal, air, human element, water, sky, all these being assembled into spaces and landscapes, which are in constant motion and in a continuous evolution, in fact, being assembled into the landscape that we perceive consciously or unconsciously. Complex phenomenon with complex and unpredictable landscape events known and influenced by mechanisms and urban forces, the city can be understood as a weave of areas and subareas, with its own strategic awareness of definition of urbanity in relation to its inhabitants, but also with external forces considered structural elements (Grigorovschi and Răchieru, 2011). The city may be regarded as an area of manifestation of creative spirits of its inhabitants, of thei social ambitions, of the desire to promote and the need of hierarchy, consequently being a place of concentration and operation with material, cultural and spiritual values (Dascălu, 2011). Public spaces are the structural elements of any architectural environment, areas of social cohesion, spaces of coexistence, outbreaks of urbanity programmatically designed to attract all types of public, to reunite the citizens of the city and to improve the dynamics of the urban space; in one word, the city’s front window. The image of the city and thus defining quality of life depend largely on public space, which occupies a major and polymorphous role. The quality of the public areas belonging to the city, the areas 152