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The public value of public spaces within existing market paradigms is being ignored. The existence of the public sphere is a fundamental requirement for preserving a democratic environment in everyday life. The question of which functional spaces can revitalize the values of publicness is essential. This article takes a critical look at the erosion of democracy and publicness. It contributes to urbanism by looking at it from a social science perspective. The review article method associates different interdisciplinary concepts used in various disciplines, It is a theoretical article that tries to go beyond the typical evaluation of spaces to examine the qualities that revitalize publicness using conceptual relations to draw attention to the fact that the functions of different architectural structures can also effectively revitalize publicness. Based on this, it argues that the variety of functions considered in the context of social facilities in the urbanism literature can be grouped according to different definitions. The article questions how social facilities associated with publicness can function as social infrastructure in the context of public space. This perspective requires one to look at spaces in urban planning using qualitative definitions, which, in turn, requires one to examine the concept of social infrastructure using definitions from social disciplines due to the fact that a human-centered perspective is necessary in order to identify spaces with the potential to revitalize publicness. This theoretical approach looks at planning from the perspective of communicative rationality. In addition, it is also essential to understand the types of social infrastructure elements to consider as public space tools in terms of the qualities of living publicness that bring the public sphere into existence. This makes the qualities one wants to define as social infrastructure essential. Tools that function as public spaces should offer qualities that revitalize publicness and thus diversify the public sphere. This article analyzes the qualitative relations between the concepts of publicness and social infrastructure to reveal the kind of social infrastructure needed to provide the qualities that revitalize publicness. One can consider social facilities as social infrastructure tools in the context of their role in the development of social reinforcement that strengthens the public sphere. With this perspective, the article proposes that the limits of the concept of public space in instrumental planning can be transcended and that new and contrarian spatial tools can also be considered in this context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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