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Contemporary trends in urban design and shaping of public spaces are set in domains defined by the principles of sustainable development. One of the propensities relates to ever-increasing presence and implementation of spatial and programmatic concepts and projects in areas that foresee usage and affirmation of environmentally acceptable modalities of traffic such as pedestrian movement, cycling, usage of electrically powered vehicles, etc. With respect to that, pedestrian movement, as a basic and natural form of human movement has become a subject of research of multidisciplinary teams of experts and organisations on the global level, especially in the last two decades 1 . This paper will demonstrate correlative actions of the quality of pedestrian environment and infrastructure directed towards pedestrians' motivation for movement along street ways that connect city centres. The research was conducted on the polygon of the Municipality of Vracar, City of Belgrade, encompassing local centres and links between them. Data has been collected by using methods of direct field research and the method of surveying the local inhabitants. By systematising and comparing the collected data this paper determines relations of the subject of research. Special care was dedicated to pedestrian environment along the observed ways, which includes arrangement and activities in the ground floors of the buildings, which define the street ways, equipment in street ways and conflicts with other participants in the traffic. The research has demonstrated that the frequency of pedestrian movement is not only proportional to equipment and surrounding of street ways, but to diversity and continuity of contents in the ground floors of the buildings, while being oppositely proportional to the number and frequency of motor vehicles.
Abstract of A Study on Pedestrian Streetscape as a Public Right
Poor facilities for pedestrians in the streets could adversely affect humans and the environment. The adverse effects include: accidents to pedestrians by motorists; A growing number of motor vehicles, so that traffic jams occur more frequently; The higher the level of air pollution; More and more citizens are diseased related to the respiratory system; And diseases that attack the respiratory system and lungs would also attack the nervous system and the brain; Community would diminishing their power of thought and intelligence, so that our human resources we would be getting worse. Efforts to reduce people's reliance on private vehicles is the provision of good public transport system, in quality and quantity. The public transit system cannot stand alone. Any sophisticated public transport system if there is not good pedestrian facilities, the comfort and safety of the traveling public transit users cannot be considered adequate. Need connectivity between modes of transport, in the form of pedestrian lane.
PEDESTRIAN PRIORITY IN URBAN AREA AND USEFULNESS TOWARDS COMMUNITY
Transportation network has become nerve of any city, the paradox here is that though meant for human travel, these roads hardly provide any quality space for those who are without vehicles (well known as pedestrian). Due to the ambiguous position of nonmotorized travel in an urban transportation system, the transportation conditions for non-motorized travel are getting worse in cities, which illustrate the urgent need for the improvement for same. There is a requirement of combining traffic issues with pedestrian in a comprehensive manner and will make it an important part of road design. Preservation of nature, opportunities for cultural interface, a resource conserving environment with workable public transit and more occasions for walking should be prime objectives of urban planners. For urban development, pedestrian system should be well designed, safe and convenient. The Pedestrian Zone is the primary component of every street in a city. It is not only a zone to ensure smooth, comfortable, conflict free movement of pedestrians and public transport users, but also an area which shapes social interactions, safety and quality of life of people in a city. Pedestrian priority thus becomes a major and a very important phenomenon for urban development which in a way helps quality of life in an urban area. With the increase in population and keeping in view the world pedestrian scenario, this paper will bring some notices to facilities required, mode of travels to be looked upon and other such major issues are discussed.
Importance and planning of pedestrian streets in urban environment
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An increasing problem in cities is the growth of the number of motorised vehicles making the urban environment unsafe and unattractive and reducing residents’ willingness to walk. The study explores the problems associated with the development of pedestrian-friendly infrastructure in the city. The importance of pedestrian movement in the urban environment was studied and several pedestrian streets in Latvia were analyzed. The method for evaluation of the quality of a pedestrian street was developed based on the summarizing and analysis of the information from the available literature sources. The method includes criteria that make a pedestrian street high-quality and easy-to-use public space that is suitable not only for walking but also as a multifunctional place for various activities. The authors have worked out recommendations for creating a spatial structure and landscape design in urban environment focusing on the necessity to install good quality and sustainable outdoor desig...
The Pedestrianisation and Its Relation with Enhancing Walkability in Urban Spaces
Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2018
The study aimed to answer the question of how pedestrianisation can influence walkability to increase physical activity vitality and livability of urban spaces. Therefore, after the theoretical understanding of the framework of the research, the study will focus on experimental research on the Salamis rode of Famagusta to assess the problems of walkability in the street to propose a sustainable and human-friendly solution for this area. The main aim of the research is to find what is the interrelation between pedestrianisation in public urban spaces and walkability? Therefore, it concludes that walkability as a part of the pedestrianisation scheme will lead to an increase in the quality of the urban environment by increasing safety and organization in urban infra-instructors.
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The advent of technology has reduced the need of citizens to buy, work and do even social interactions in urban space. This condition has increased the power of individuals to choose between attend or absent from the public space and consequently has highlighted the importance of public space quality. The purpose of the public life study is to focus on the daily life of urban space to identify factors affecting public life and provide a favorable urban environment for the presence of various social strata. In this regard, the 17th Shahrivar project in Tehran was selected, which, despite the planning for pedestrians, has not been able to provide the invited and desired space for citizens. The present research, with an emphasis on the ideas of Jan Gehl, uses Gehl's study tools of public life, including counting, mapping, looking for traces, keeping a diary and test walks in the area. The findings of the research show that the study area has not had a proper public life condition except in the evenings. The main factor was lack of transparent, attractive, dynamic and diverse activities in the axis. For this reason, abandoned spaces have been created with little social monitoring which cause unwanted and unplanned functions, such as becoming a vehicle park or the emergence of social unpredictable activities that is related to the background and potential context of space. By changing the social context of users toward abnormal, alien and specific people, has reduced the quality of the environment, especially in terms of psychological security, and has decreased the presence of normal people, specifically women and children.
Streets for people: sustaining accessible and sociable streets in Pasir Gudang city centre
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This study provides guidelines on some design measures and implementations through relating the social, socio-physical and spatial (syntactical) factors to the way people behave and use streets in Pasir Gudang City Centre (PGCC). In giving people the priority of use of the streets, their dynamic and static activities are observed and analysed. People behave dynamically when they walk and they are static when stopping, sitting, standing, waiting, watching, eating, etc. The impact of these behaviours are examined in relation to the interrelated function of streets with the affordance of the socio-physical factors which are the architectural topography (i.e. physical designs such as building indents, ledges, windowsills). Accordingly, the scientific aspect of Space Syntax technique or axial line analysis is applied onto the streets in order to obtain their integration (syntactical) value to represent the level of spatial connectivity (configuration) within the streets' local and global network. Static activities are asserted as the predominant social variable in the framework to measure the success of streets in their social and spatial functions i.e. sociability and accessibility. The sociability is measured through the capacity of the street to accommodate static activities. The accessibility relates to the ability of the street to accommodate and distribute static activities within its local and global network. Streets in the twelve zones of areas within a 3 km radius of distance from the city centre were analysed. Interestingly, some primary streets which are highly accessible (or highly-integrated) have been observed with high usage of vehicular traffic but low in use and rather in conducive to the pedestrians and other soft modes of traffic, i.e. the cyclists. On the contrary, the less accessible streets i.e the secondary and tertiary streets with the lower integration values have been more actively used by people. The study concludes by putting forward some recommendations, which include aspects on pedestrian safety and the improvement of the hard and soft scapes in the streets' layout.
STREETS FOR PEOPLE: Sustaining accessible and sociable streets in Pasir Gudang city centre 108
Proceedings of the Ninth International Space Syntax Symposium, Seoul: Sejong University, 2013, 2013
This study provides guidelines on some design measures and implementations through relating the social, socio-physical and spatial (syntactical) factors to the way people behave and use streets in Pasir Gudang City Centre (PGCC). In giving people the priority of use of the streets, their dynamic and static activities are observed and analysed. People behave dynamically when they walk and they are static when stopping, sitting, standing, waiting, watching, eating, etc. The impact of these behaviours are examined in relation to the interrelated function of streets with the affordance of the socio-physical factors which are the architectural topography (i.e. physical designs such as building indents, ledges, windowsills). Accordingly, the scientific aspect of Space Syntax technique or axial line analysis is applied onto the streets in order to obtain their integration (syntactical) value to represent the level of spatial connectivity (configuration) within the streets' local and global network. Static activities are asserted as the predominant social variable in the framework to measure the success of streets in their social and spatial functions i.e. sociability and accessibility. The sociability is measured through the capacity of the street to accommodate static activities. The accessibility relates to the ability of the street to accommodate and distribute static activities within its local and global network. Streets in the twelve zones of areas within a 3 km radius of distance from the city centre were analysed. Interestingly, some primary streets which are highly accessible (or highly-integrated) have been observed with high usage of vehicular traffic but low in use and rather in conducive to the pedestrians and other soft modes of traffic, i.e. the cyclists. On the contrary, the less accessible streets i.e the secondary and tertiary streets with the lower integration values have been more actively used by people. The study concludes by putting forward some recommendations, which include aspects on pedestrian safety and the improvement of the hard and soft scapes in the streets' layout.
Pedestrian Area Design to Promote Social Interaction (Case study: Isfahan Khajoo Neighborhood)
International Journal of Architecture and Urban Development, 2015
Pedestrian areas are a type of urban public space, nowadays because of the serious consequencesof car-dependency and ignoring pedestrian needs, a consensus on the importance of walking and the necessity forplanning for pedestrians movement has been formed among urban designers, planners and people. The concernsabout human health and movement in city create a new trend in contemporary urbanism, entitled “pedestrianizationmovement”. So far, walking in the streets has been defined under the influence of cars and they have always been givena priority over pedestrians. As a result, cars gradually conquer urban spaces, retreat pedestrians from their essentialrights to use public spaces. If it is accepted that the quality of urban public areas has a considerable influence oncitizens’ everyday social activities, this influence can be seen much greater in car free zones than anywhere else in thecity. The main attention of the present study is enhancing social interactions in urban spaces, so...