Shreya Thakkar
4 min readJun 15, 2019

Urban spaces generally comprise of two basic elements, namely, streets and squares. Streets provide two main fundamental functions: movement and place. They are linear three-dimensional spaces, that are usually enclosed on opposite sides by buildings. However, they are different from roads/highways whose main purpose is just movement.

Streets determine the spatial characteristics of a city and are its most essential component. Every city has its distinctive characteristic which can be…