Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1
Ph.D Student, Department of Architecture, Advancement in Architecture and Urban Planning ResearchCenter, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
2
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran. Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Shahin Shahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahin Shahr, Iran.
3
Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
10.22034/ias.2021.303932.1718
Abstract
The promotion of social interactions is one of the most important manifestations of successful urban spaces. But in the present era, the increasing use of cars and the gradual domination of pedestrian movement has reduced the social participation in urban spaces. This issue, while addressing the importance of social interactions in urban life, raises the need to return to the category of pedestrians. Therefore, the present study is based on identifying and evaluating the factors affecting the promotion of social interactions in pedestrian streets. The present study was conducted as a case study in Chaharbagh Abbasi Pedestrian Street of Isfahan. This research is of applied type and descriptive-analytical research method and an attempt has been made to determine the importance of each of the effective criteria and indicators using the opinion of experts. Therefore, effective criteria for promoting social interactions were identified in three components: physical, social and activity-functional. Then, using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Expert Choice software, the importance coefficients of the criteria, sub-criteria and their prioritization were determined. The study population consisted of experts who were randomly selected to answer the questionnaire questions. The results indicate that , the physical criterion with a weight of 0.31 is more important than the other criteria and the sub-criteria of visual diversity and permeability of the main physical criterion with a weight of 0.29 have the highest coefficient of importance in the process of promoting social interactions from the perspective of experts.
Keywords
)