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Sharukh Marfani, R.N.G.P.I.T; Patel Smit ,R.N.G.P.I.T; Rana Nirav ,R.N.G.P.I.T; Patel Savan ,R.N.G.P.I.T

The population of urban area is continuously increasing nowadays. It tends to decrease the public spaces in highly populated area. There are many spaces in urban area which can be converted into different uses like urban voids i.e. leftover spaces, negative spaces etc. have huge potentials to turn the spaces into well planned, designed most effective public spaces. Filling the urban voids such as spaces below flyover gives city a new look and life, it can be possible to convert leftover spaces like edge spaces, in between spaces, below flyover spaces etc. into spaces that are beneficial to public and community. The paper will be focused on the concept of urban voids, identifying and analyzing the types of voids also filling these voids in order to create healthy, enjoyable public spaces by studying the case studies of western and European countries.