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Abstract
Spaces are created when memories and experiences are added to places. This experience when added to a place is considered important to people through time. Often the importance of urban open spaces is forgotten in the debate about architecture and the built form. Each city or an urban space has aunique identity and a character of its own. Therefore, there is a special link between user and space that forms when observing a city and its components. People experience a city through its components and moving in paths formed by elements, forming a vista that individuals recognize when arriving at any urban space. This identity is formed or enhanced by five main principles; distinctiveness, continuity, significance, compatibility and cohesiveness.Due to the dynamic non-stop development of cities, a key question concerning the quality of life is always in mind. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the standard indicators of the quality of lifeinclude the environment, physical and mental health, social belonging, security and freedom (Smith & Knox, 2009).The sense of belonging helps develop an individual or collective identity to a space. Nevertheless, this identity could be threatened by urban change forces, such as; globalization and urbanization. Failure to maintain identity qualities from these urban forces causes the phenomenon of “placelessness” or “nonplaces”. Edward Relph describes the term of “placelessness” as “the casual eradication of distinctive places and the making of standardized landscapes that result from insensitivity of the significance of place” (Relph, 1976).This research aims to identify the efficiency of streetscape elements in affecting the degree of identity to users. This is achieved through showing a hierarchical ranking of the principles of identity and the elements of streetscape based on public participation of users and visitors. Literature reviews of identity, streetscape elements, the relation between them and a conducted survey are used as the main methods to achieve the aim of this research. The results show that there is a strong relationship between physical features of streetscape elements and the sense of identity in a space according to users’ perspectives and experiences