Abstract
Urban spaces such as parks and playgrounds provide a convenient place to communicate with neighbours and visitors, as these urban spaces provide a variety of physical and social benefits to individuals and communities, contribute to reducing air pollution, reduce noise and reduce heat in urban areas. On a larger scale, large gardens bring people of all ages and cultures together, thus helping to create a true sense of social value. Human behaviour is defined as the sum of the psychological, physical, motor, physiological and verbal activity of a person who deals with and interacts with his environment. It represents all kinds of activities that a person undertakes while dealing with and adapting to the environment and includes several aspects: cognitive, movement and emotional. people who deal with the built environment do not take into account how their decisions will affect the users of public urban spaces, which had an impact on the emergence of negative behaviours that, in turn, affect the built environment in those urban spaces. The research aims to determine the effect of human movement behaviour on urban spaces in general and the central garden in Zuwara in particular, to develop the necessary suggestions for the requirements of users in these spaces. the methodology used depends on sequential and different approaches are (the inductive and deductive approaches) the research strategy used is qualitative research, this is by gathering opinion about the satisfaction of the users of the garden. The methods used are observation and interviews with users. The main findings are,that the users are satisfied with the garden and its components, but they have some special requirements to provide some deficiencies. Some unplanned movement behaviours have been observed in the park, such as a preference for walking on the lawn instead of walking on the path specified for that. It was also observed that some visitors jumped from the only wall in the park to reach their destination faster than using the movement paths. The study presented a set of general recommendations and specific recommendations for the study area, along with submitting a proposal that includes the visitors' requirements and some services that contribute to increasing the park’s efficiency.