A Model of Intervention and Spatial Policy-making System for Urban Pedestrian Streets

Walking is recognized as the main model of movement within human-dwelling centers. Ferdowsi Street has, due to the lack of befitting urban space for the presence of citizens on the one hand and the dominance of motorways over pedestrian zones spaces on the other hand, tightened the noose around citizens wishing to show up in public spaces and disrupted their social life. In the present study attempts are made to review the pedestrian zone design criteria and mix them with attendance quality factors in order to delineate the framework of attendance-inducing pedestrian zones and finally provide a spatial policy system and a model of intervention for the attendance-inciting pedestrian zones of a city. The present study falls within the category of mixed applied studies. In the qualitative phase, content analysis method was used to investigate the theoretical foundations and extract the research framework. Quantitative phase, exploratory factor analysis was used to analyze 300 questionnaires and identify the components of spatial policies related to attendance-inducing pedestrian zones. In the next step, regression analysis was used to present an intervention model for the design of the attendant-inducing pedestrian zones on Ferdowsi Street.14 factors can be recognized as the main components affecting spatial policies related to attendance-inducing pedestrian zones in the Ferdowsi street. Permeability and sense of belonging were found to have the greatest impact on attendance of people in the pedestrian zones of the Ferdowsi and access to urban services and efficiency turned out to have the least significant impact on that.