Analytic Attitude toward the Contemporary Urban Public Spaces Related to the Communal Rituals

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.