At the beginning of industrial revolution, invention of cars and expanding the cities gradually prioritizing the role of pedestrian and enclosed pedestrian spaces in cities faded out and space quality of public areas of the city, urban open spaces and sidewalks decrease
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At the beginning of industrial revolution, invention of cars and expanding the cities gradually prioritizing the role of pedestrian and enclosed pedestrian spaces in cities faded out and space quality of public areas of the city, urban open spaces and sidewalks decreased. Now days most of the urban public spaces and streets are dominated by cars because of indiscriminate increase of vehicles and dependence on pattern of urban life on them. According to formation of the first steps in designing pedestrian oriented streets in Iran and to the huge impact of this kind of streets on making quantitative and qualitative of all sorts of social interactions and increasing citizen’s life quality, in this lecture we will discuss the introduction and review of relations between main components for promoting social interactions on pedestrian oriented streets. In this regard the impact of readability which is one of the main components of promoting social interactions other components like vitality, security and safety are our case studies. This research is a practical research which is done in survey way. The statistical population of this research was chosen among Qazvin citizens and Khayam and Sepah pedestrians were our sample population. In this research we used self-made questionnaire and after ensuring its stability and validity we distributed it among our sample population. In order to analyze our data, we used confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results of data analyze confirms our concept model. Also the research results are showing positive and meaningful effects of readability on vitality, safety, security, positive and meaningful effects of vitality on safety and security in society, which is our case study.
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