ADITI GUPTA - Interactive and Quality Pedestrian Street : Dissertation 2019-2020

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Aditi Gupta | 2019

organized concept for the existing green area to use them towards pedestrian beneficial •

The nodes should be activated and improved to increase the social interaction. But street is not facilitated in terms of activity legibility. It means that some remarkable activities should be defined along this street to make it more legible.

Although 29 sector street acts like a mixed-use street, there is not variety of activities. Thus, this street needs to be improved in terms of activities, so that optional and social activities will be done in this street as well.

The quality of visual aspects of street should be defined by landscape and building façade. Good landscape or public art could improve the visual qualities and caring about order, unity and balance in new constructions in this street will affect visual appropriateness

Pavement materials and pedestrian facilities should be improved to persuade people to walk to the street.

As what discussed in analysis, the level of safety in Street should be improved also the lighting equipment for example could be designed along the street to improve safety especially at nights.

Comfort is defined as greenery, street furniture, visual qualities, signage and safety. Hence to have comfortable Street it is needed to define each and every quality according to human needs. As a result of this research, it needs to be redesigned properly according to user needs and activities. In this sense it could be a successful pedestrian street.

6.3 Agenda for Future Research Accordingly, this research was done to be a base for firstly determining the current situation in terms of street quality and then promoting these qualities in sector 29 Street. It can also be used by other researches in future as municipalities, town planning offices and students who want to study in this field. For me, if I wish to move in this way, I will go deeper through street quality. In this sense, I will define the concepts towards how each and every parameter could be improved to be converted to a quality within the stree

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