Volume 4, Issue 1, September 2013, Pages 141–154
Parnia Rezaporian1, Mostafa Aabbaszadegan2, and Atosa Modiri3
1 Department of Arts and Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Arts and Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 Department of Arts and Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Original language: English
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One of the common problems of the contemporary urbanization worldwide has its origins in its excessive loyalty to the vehicular movement overlooking the maintenance and organization of walkways spaces and pedestrian movement. This, it turn, has led to the disintegration of the social and cultural and visual values in the urban spaces and the decrease of its performance and efficiency. It is noteworthy that the presence of pedestrians in the cities is advantageous to enhancing the social interactions of the citizens. To design paths conforming to the pedestrian movement in the urban fabric, due to their public use, requires flexibility, variation in the activities and spaces, the provision of urban safety and sense of belonging to the space the same factors which will consequently result in the promotion of the quality of the routes, the enhancement of social relations and interactions and the flourishing of the urban life. This research intends to study the enhancement of the urban space by pedestrian grid design using space syntax technique in the historical neighborhood of Jolfa, the Armenian quarter in the city of Isfahan (Iran).
Author Keywords: Isfahan, Urbanization, Safety, Pedestrian Grid Design, Armenian quarter.
Parnia Rezaporian1, Mostafa Aabbaszadegan2, and Atosa Modiri3
1 Department of Arts and Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Arts and Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 Department of Arts and Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Original language: English
Copyright © 2013 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
One of the common problems of the contemporary urbanization worldwide has its origins in its excessive loyalty to the vehicular movement overlooking the maintenance and organization of walkways spaces and pedestrian movement. This, it turn, has led to the disintegration of the social and cultural and visual values in the urban spaces and the decrease of its performance and efficiency. It is noteworthy that the presence of pedestrians in the cities is advantageous to enhancing the social interactions of the citizens. To design paths conforming to the pedestrian movement in the urban fabric, due to their public use, requires flexibility, variation in the activities and spaces, the provision of urban safety and sense of belonging to the space the same factors which will consequently result in the promotion of the quality of the routes, the enhancement of social relations and interactions and the flourishing of the urban life. This research intends to study the enhancement of the urban space by pedestrian grid design using space syntax technique in the historical neighborhood of Jolfa, the Armenian quarter in the city of Isfahan (Iran).
Author Keywords: Isfahan, Urbanization, Safety, Pedestrian Grid Design, Armenian quarter.
How to Cite this Article
Parnia Rezaporian, Mostafa Aabbaszadegan, and Atosa Modiri, “Enhancing the Quality of Urban Space by Pedestrian Grid Design Using Space Syntax Technique: A Case Study of the Historical Neighborhood of Jolfa in the City of Isfahan (Iran),” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 141–154, September 2013.
