The role of traffic calming in the planning of child friendly and human-oriented cities (Case study: Zanjan)

With the rapid growth of urbanization, children's health is one of the most important problems in many countries, which it is mentioned one of the main reasons for the lack of a child friendly environment in the city. Creating a child friendly city, including the allocation of infrastructure and public facilities (green space, playground, and participatory spaces) is in the interest of children. The purpose of this research is to identify child-friendly spaces to separate urban neighborhoods of Zanjan is based on safety. The method to be applied and the nature of descriptive and analytic that the data collection tools including library studies and documents have benefited. To analyze the data and results of GIS is used. The results suggest that neighborhoods such as Baharestan,Amir Kabir, Zibashahr and Arrazy Payyn, Due to Local Street blocked (deadlock) in the end, Space For the circulation of vehicles As well as of children's games Percent lower accident And also more children from the streets as their playground. In contrast to these areas, Islamabad district with network chess the highest percentage of accidents on the Streets of the local is allocated. This is due to the high population density, the neighborhood. The occupation and sovereignty of the low income class, they continue to use the streets as the main game space for children which require attention and review is essential.