Characteristics to making street side walk. Case Study for Enghelab Street (Between Vali-e ASR and Razi Street)

Year 2015, Volume: 36 Issue: 3, 4224 - 4237, 13.05.2015

Sepide Bahramı , İman Pour Haghıghı Zade Mahsa Mojtahedı

Abstract

Abstract. Walking has always been one of the most important and fundamental needs of human beings. Nowadays, whit the increase in population in urban areas, less attention is paid to walking. Pedestrians and Pedestrian-walks are no longer prioritized as before in urban spaces and the quality of them has been decreased. According one of the main future predicaments is distancing urban spaces from human values and their needs, in a way that lack of quality in Pedestrian walks has contributed to less social roles of the citizens. What they call for, in a way that lack of quality in Pedestrian walks has contributed to less social roles of the citizens. One of the other hand, people requirement for having quite places away from the hustle and bustle of the humans city and cars, and holding the culture, art and their background have become more valuable. In the capital city of Tehran, due to the large population and traffic and their need for traveling in motor ways and streets rather than pavements, the separation gap between the humans and the human city has been intensified. This study the necessity of considers, transformation, conversion of a part of the pavement in “Enghelab” street to Pedestrian- walk and sidewalks with a view to the descriptive- modulation and content – analysis and the collection of information from relevant books and internet research. Besides, qualitative approach such as observation, place- visit, compatibility of regulations, conducting surveys and reasoning analysis have been taken in to consideration. In order to improve the current situation of the pass-way in the northern part of the city- theatre . According to the result of the survey, most of the people who commute regularly from this place, believe that this route shod be transformed to a lively route with the action human presence.

Keywords

Pedestrians- Space quality- Human city- Enghelab street- City- theatre

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