INVESTIGATING AND ASSESSING THE VITALITY INDICATORS OF PEDESTRIAN PATHWAYS AND PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED STREETS, IN COMPARISON OF ISTIKLAL PEDESTRIAN PATHWAY, ISTANBUL, TURKEY AND 30 TIR PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED STREET, TEHRAN, IRAN

In recent years, the dominance of riders on pedestrians, which is a kind of dominance of quantity over quality in urban space, has reached its peak as a dominant culture in cities. Reducing social interactions, heavy traffic, environmental pollutions such as air pollution, physical and mental health problems for citizens, and also the destruction of valuable tissues and buildings of ancient cities are some of the issues of today's cities which, part of that returns to the consequences of the car-centric and reducing pedestrian traffic in cities. Pedestrian movement, strengthening the pedestrian moves in urban spaces and creating pathways are among the methods to reduce the effects of the mentioned issues and restoring the position of pedestrian moves to urban spaces. Pathways as passages with high social role and restricting riders moves is actually a way to reclaim public passages, especially the valuable urban spaces that have cultural, historical, commercial, and recreational attractions for pedestrians, from vehicles, and giving it back to human beings for the purpose of move, social interactions and recreational, tourism and commercial activities One of the most important characteristics of pedestrian pathways and pedestrian-oriented streets is their vitality, which can play an essential role in the level of presence and satisfaction of citizens in order to increase social interactions and approach pedestrian-oriented targets. In this study, we have tried to express the characteristics of vitality in urban spaces. The purpose of this study is to achieve common criteria for creating vitality on pedestrian pathways and pedestrian oriented streets. And by comparing and examining the Istiklal pedestrian pathway in Istanbul and 30 Tir pedestrian oriented Street in Tehran through SWOT technique, it develops criteria for creating vitality in pedestrian pathways and proposes these criteria for creating vitality in pedestrian pathways and pedestrian oriented streets.