The article presents results of a study on adapting high tourist importance spaces to the needs of users on the example of Poznań. The study uses the author’s own method of quality assessment, which was created after the analysis of shaping elements important for the necessary integration, accessibility, education, comfort, safety, image and functional attractiveness of the urban environment. Interest in active recreation within large Polish and world cities is a noticeable trend. The popularity of this form of tourism does not translate into a visible improvement in the adaptation of tourist facilities to the growing needs and requirements of users. In the author’s opinion, urban public spaces are the main area of the visitors activity and for this reason they should be properly prepared. The pilot study checks the possibility of using the method to study spaces with a tourist function. The field survey results conducted by the expert evaluation questionnaire can be read at three levels: general, detailed for criteria evaluation and detailed for individual public spaces evaluation of. The method was not adapted to the tourist function spaces study, and the tested sample showed evaluation limitats due to the space with the communication function.