Walkway’s Role in Vitality of Public SpacesCase Study: Shar-e Rey Shrine Walkway, Tehran

Public spaces as basic elements of cities, play an important role in citizen’s health and their quality of life. An essential component of public spaces is pathways that also include walkways. Vitality and dynamism are important elements in the qualitative evaluation of public spaces. The vitality itself reflects the activities that take place in space and the walkability of cities is a way that can improve urban vitality. So, implementation of walkway projects in cities can promote the activities that help cities to be more viable. The purpose of this evaluated-analytical research is to evaluate vitality of  shrine’s walkway located in Shar-e Rey, district No.20 of Tehran municipality. Data are collected from a sample of 375 pedestrians by using a questionnaire. 38 indicators representing vitality in 38 questions and 5 ranges, were evaluated by the sample people and in order to analyze, Friedman test and descriptive statistics methods were used via SPSS software. Finally, results indicate that vitality is in a moderate condition in the study area, generally. So that show 58.47% of the appropriate conditions of vitality. The most influential vitality indicators  in the walkway are more related to social-economic dimension than physical. "Diversity of people", "cultural events" and the variety of "activities" and "retail centers" have been the most influential indicators. At the same time, low vitality of space was more affected by physical indicators such as “car parking", "the capacity of space", "entering motorcycles", lack of "green space" and low level of “cleanliness" that should be taken into consideration.