FACTORS INFLUENCING THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CITY PUBLIC SPACES

City public spaces is a developed structure of flowing and interconnected spaces. They solve pedestrian and transportation problems and serve as a place of concentration of a large number of people at the same time and additional activities and functions, such as trade, communication, and recreation, which complement the main function of this space. In order to understand the mechanisms of emergence and formation of open public spaces in cities, it is necessary to consider a number of factors that influence them and form the basis for the creation of these spaces. The relevance of the issue is to determine the components of these factors and their expression in the open public space of cities in the functional, social or physical component. The purpose of the publication is to identify the main factors influencing the formation of open public spaces in cities; to reveal their importance in the organization of open public spaces, on which the functional, physical and social content of these spaces may depend; to identify more detailed components for certain types of influence factors; to provide specific examples of filling open public spaces in cities according to the listed factors. It has been found that the factors of influence are a key component of the formation of open public spaces, namely: natural and climatic, economic, historical, socio-cultural and informational. The natural and climatic factor is the most stable in the formation of open public spaces. Economic - on the functional content and physical filling that generates income; historical - on the types and characteristics of urban open spaces; socio-cultural - on human adaptation to spaces and their desire to preserve, reproduce, maintain and transform them; informational - on their perception by a person and interaction with them.