recreation lively pedestrian-oriented urban space in ancient neighborhood and old texture of the city

Pedram Pourhosseini¹

1) Tehran university, E-mail:

IOI Code : XYFG-BBFKF
Publication : 4th International Conference on Modern Research in Civil Engineering, Architectural & Urban Development (4cauconf.com)
Abstract :
    Human Being as the main part in making the urban space and the main consumers has always brought freshness and a social life for the city by participating in public urban spaces. Taking a walk has always been the primary way of movement among the society because it doesn’t cost any and it is also accessible until when the industrial revolution changed everything. Since then moving between places by foot was replaced by automobiles and other vehicles. After that during the modernity in the 20th century, urbanism was being developed based on machines. Gradually pedestrians as an important aspect of the city was forgotten and urban areas which were used to shape according to pedestrians movement started to be managed and designed based on automobiles. In recent years, due to all the problems caused by urbanism paying much more attention to machines rather than human, like air pollution, fossil fuel reduction, freshnessless and our loss in the identity and social life in the city, urbanism and city management according to walkability has become apriority again and pedestrian cross would be lead to appropriate relationships between citizens. In order to do so, main streets of the cities which are the commercial areas as well, play quite a significant role. These places absorb a great number of pedestrians and it also shows the life style in the city. Now a day, the residential space in the city center neighborhoods make up the most space that everyday citizens are associated with urban space is the most important element. Unfortunately, today in the center of the neighborhood as the direction of movement and access roadway role played by the environment in which the expression of the people s social interactions. For the moment, quality and attractiveness of public urban areas has become one of the most important demands of the citizens. The context of the implementation of its features are favorable for the development of social interaction and it also plays an important role in stimulating economic market areas pedestrian zones surrounding neighborhoods and areas that are in various activities. The result of physical identify in the context of the district s center occurred as urban design, therefore by recognizing the best location to create or develop the district center and also recognizing it s required function to get arranged this the urban design process was conducted in this thesis it has been an attention to achieve am environment which can be a model to guide the future developments by restoring the power of district such as culture and tourism attraction Of the district and also preparing model essential requirements. The following research, considering the pedestrians movement as a priority, is going to make some urban space criteria considering the pedestrian-friendly streets and pedestrians prior to other aspects. It is also going to correct and improve the public areas and automobile oriented urban space by choosing a main commercial area in dense residential places and ancient neighborhood to improve it is walkability and make it more people oriented.

Keywords : urban space recreation pedestrian crossing neighborhood square old texture