Perceptional Dimension Towards More Walkable Communities: An Assessment Tool Approach.

Abdelfattah, Dalia; Nasreldin, Rania

doi:10.21608/jur.2019.86917

Perceptional Dimension Towards More Walkable Communities: An Assessment Tool Approach.

Authors

Dalia Abdelfattah ¹
Rania Nasreldin ²

¹ Department of Architectural Engineering & Environmental Design, Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt.

² Department of Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University Giza, Egypt

10.21608/jur.2019.86917

Abstract

In active living community, Walking is one of the oldest and most basic forms of
transportation. Although, walking has generally received little or no attention in the
planning, and development of urban communities. Having more walkable
communities is a connection and intersection of three overlapped layers of the
research main domains; urban physical features, perceptional qualities, and
individual reactions.
The research has developed operational definitions for the urban physical features
believed to be related to walkability, investigating the interaction between human
activities and individual reactions as feeling of safety and comfort, through clear
perceptional dimension of image-ability, legibility, complexity, etc., within group of
urban physical features as street width, proportion, buildings height, etc. However,
the research aims to extract the conceptual walkability framework elaborated from
the literature and offering empirical study based on a quantitative tool of the
formative scenario analysis.
Moreover, the research is addressing an assessment approach to have an insightful
indication of the variables values based on the conceptual walkability framework, as
opportunities to improve conditions for walking to make communities more Liveable.
Finally the research offers a field survey instrument, through applying the formative
scenario analysis technique to study walkability in one of the mixed-use
neighbourhood gated community, indicating the impact of each variable and its
relative weight, concluding with the graphical representation, and the impact matrix
of the walkable variables of the studying area.

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