Assessing the desirability of pedestrian construction and reconstruction of the historic city of Semnan Sustainable landscape tourism

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rahimeh javadian ¹ (Ph.D. student, Geography and Urban Planning, Samnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Samnan, Iran)
Zainab Karka Abadi ² (Associate Professor of Geography* Department, Samnan, Islamic Azad University, Samnan, Iran)
Mohammad Reza Zand Moghadam ³ (Professor Department of Geography, Samnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Samnan, Iran)

Received: 2023-04-09 Accepted : 2023-06-21 Published : 2023-06-21

Keywords: Tourism, Sustainable Development, cities, Historic fabric, pedestrian,

Abstract :

AbstractOver the past decades, modern urbanism has relied too much on the needs of mobility and neglecting the organization of pedestrian spaces. According to the trend, sustainable urban development will be caused if urban planners present the theory of neo-urbanism to save urban centers, and the officials of urban affairs develop plans in the direction of pedestrian traffic, if they themselves put some kind of neo-urbanism in their agenda. In this article, various pedestrian indicators, including pedestrian indicators, sustainable development indicators and tourism indicators, were compiled based on questionnaires and were compiled using the methods of hypothesis testing, equality of averages, a population t-test, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and then ranking indicators based on Weighted entropy and finally TOPSIS method. The analysis of the data has been carried out and the measurement of pedestrian traffic has been done using the HQE2R model, and the analysis of pedestrians, surface service and pedestrian services has been used according to the 2016 HCM manual. Also, the accessibility, movement structure and strategic components of  Imam street  will be approved through Arc-GIS software and maps of  Imam street will be designed. The results of the data analysis and the models used in the research indicate that the indicators in the process of pedestrian regeneration in Semnan city will be correctly defined and can be effective. But the level of service in this area is low. In order to have a sustainable development, the pedestrian axis becomes important in this street and requires higher level services.