Open Space

Open space may refer to:

In urban planning and conservation ethics
  • Landscape, areas of land without human-built structures
  • Open space reserve, areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside
  • Urban open space, urban areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside
  • Greenway (landscape), a linear chain of open space reserves or a recreational corridor through the same
  • Public space, areas left open for the use of the public, such as a piazza, plaza, park, and courtyard
In business terminology
  • A procedure for conducting a business conference:
    • Open Space Technology
    • Open-space meeting
Other uses
  • Open Space (band), an indie rock band from Minsk, Belarus
  • Open Space (BBC TV) BBC TV programme produced by their Community Programme Unit
  • Open Space Theatre, a defunct London theatre run by Charles Marowitz
  • Open Space (publications), a music publishing collective

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or space:

    “The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.”
    —Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)

    “Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but tax-gatherer and creditor came there as elsewhere, and the poverty that yet faintly struggled was hardly less squalid and manifest than that which had long ago submitted and given up the game.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)