Seyyed Mehdi Mousakazemi; Esmaeil Aliakbari; Parviz Arani
Abstract
In compare to driving, cycling and other transportation modes, people pay more attention to their surrounding and connect with the environment while they are walking. Therefore, urban elements closed to the walking paths should be considered as very important elements. Pedestrians, while talking and ...
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In compare to driving, cycling and other transportation modes, people pay more attention to their surrounding and connect with the environment while they are walking. Therefore, urban elements closed to the walking paths should be considered as very important elements. Pedestrians, while talking and shopping, accept more impacts from the environment and its characters than any other occasions. Separating the pedestrian spaces from roadways and streets can decrease the effects of noise and environmental pollutions and finally improve the issue of commuting in the city. The present study focuses on designing and constructing five pedestrian zones in metropolitan of Tehran and investigates their functions on urban structure. In the present study, attention is paid to five pedestrian zones of Tehran metropolitan to investigate their effects on urban structure. To do this, the emphasis of the present study is on changes occurred in three criteria including: “urban commuting space”, “green space and environmental health”, and “urban identity”, after construction of the pedestrian zones. Main required data were collected from the questionnaire designed and completed by the local businessmen community and pedestrian zone users. Field and documentary data were used as well. The sample included 350 questionnaires selected by Cochran formula. The results indicated that the studied areas have already moved towards a homogeneous situation due to the construction of pedestrian zones. Also, in one-way analysis of variance, five pedestrian zones showed a significant difference of improvement among the criteria, which means that there is a functional difference between some of them.
Esmaeil Aliakbari; Majid Akbari
Volume 4, Issue 4 , March 2018, , Pages 86-100
Abstract
Infill development is a complex and multifaceted category. The importance of this development policy lies in sustaining the city and protecting its perepherial environment. This paper attempts to identify the areas of infill development, using a descriptive-analytical method and documentary data, and ...
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Infill development is a complex and multifaceted category. The importance of this development policy lies in sustaining the city and protecting its perepherial environment. This paper attempts to identify the areas of infill development, using a descriptive-analytical method and documentary data, and to identify the programs and priorities of the physical development scenario of Tehran metropolitan. The results show that based on a regional and land use prospect, Tehran does not have a same capacity and infill opportunities for all its regions. Thus, the physical development scenario of Tehran needs to pay more attention to the issue in order to reach an internalized development. Reaching such development requires the following attempts as primary bases for a physical development scenario: prioritizing the peripheral areas and areas requiring intervention, utilizing the potential of infill land use for new development in a short period of time, identifying alternatives and spaces for deployment in the areas of redevelopment, preventing the segregation, preserving the integrity of new and redeveloped reserves for settling down of the population, the creation of multifunctional functions and revitalization of target areas in a worn-out textures based on a bottom-up planning approach.
Esmaeil Aliakbari; Mostafa Taleshi; Ozra Emadodin
Volume 4, Issue 1 , June 2017, , Pages 55-70
Abstract
If Image each region as a spatial system and its cities and settlements like a system components , among these components, Various linkage and interactions that form the functional - structure of the area have the main role of this responsibility. Understanding the increasing continuity and the interweaving ...
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If Image each region as a spatial system and its cities and settlements like a system components , among these components, Various linkage and interactions that form the functional - structure of the area have the main role of this responsibility. Understanding the increasing continuity and the interweaving of spatial system is necessary for any kind of thinking and actions for the harmonious development of city and periphery This paper tries to introduce a pattern for integrated development of urban and periphery based on tourism capabilities of prei-urban with using of cognitive-explanation method and analyzing documents of views. The framework of this pattern according to theoretical evidences of integrated development approach, is based on balance and integration in development of urban and preiphery.The foundation of such pattern of monitoring the social, economic and physical changes of city and the settlements around the city emphasized on identifying the logics of attractiveness of urban and preiphery and tourism capacity that motive city attractiveness of peri-urban areas, and it is proposed in the context of the integrated and flexible spatial organization in order to maintain physical and functional identity and coherent physical composition of a city.
