Conclusion

Streets are more than the thoroughfare acting as transportation conduits, these are space for gathering, interacting, coming together to experience the environment. A quality walkable street is what is needed in the public realm, to create an ambient physical environment that must be designed according to pedestrians' needs and requirements supported by the facilities and proper policies. As streets comprise a large amount of the city's public space, it is a space for all, which functions with all people, amenities and infrastructure together. Covid-19, the global crisis has highlighted the importance of streets as public spaces as they allow people to move to increase the Walkability ratio and Pedestrianization helps in creating social inclusion and to have a better quality of life, by making streets safe, healthy and happy for all. The planner and regulatory authorities who plan these streets need to have a design with de-separate developments for vehicles and pedestrian influx together in coherence making it active with proper participation of the surrounding community users.

The research findings indicate that the walkable street is a mixture of the physical environment and psychological feelings created by the virtue of various elements and amenities. These are places that are stimulating or attractive enough for people to experience them which inculcates feelings and emotions about and in the physical space through the interaction of human senses. It constitutes a space for all, coherence with the vehicular flow, transit riders, pedestrians, cyclists, service providers, vendors and passers. The Street sidewalk is a room with various elements of built scape, greens, vegetation, amenities, texture, material, barrier, canopy etc. in the surroundings. The Livable street objective in a city is to create a more lively and accessible space that helps in creating a better Quality of Life.

The hypothesis suggested that Street vegetation is just for making streets appealing enough to walk, but looking at the beneficial effects of the vegetation and the influences it has on human health, improved neighbourhoods, physical environment, better quality of life and interaction on a human scale. Well, designed sidewalks create ecological corridors with canopy and ground porosity helping in having a physical sound and socially inclusive environment.

For the better-known fact to all, with the growing congestion levels on roads with traffic, there is a shift towards having pedestrian pathways to abandon and decrease the load on traffic.

The findings highlight that walkability is highly influenced by the vegetation greens in conjunction with the amenities of the street. As these help in creating alluring environments. The vegetation has to be placed on the sidewalks for higher rates of mobility.

In the Indian context, high density shows that coherent development can help in providing a better space for all creating a better accessible and well-connected infrastructure with basic requirements that can make streets appealing, enabling people to walk and to interact with streets more.

Looking at the research questions, the influence of Street vegetation is imperceptible if looking at the larger picture of it creating a sound environment. But the coherent environment created by the planned and designed vegetation helps in creating better opportunities for all the stakeholders of streets and enhancing the clear visibility, activity space, inclusion and better qualities of livability.