CREATING MORE PEOPLE-FRIENDLY URBAN STREETS THROUGH ‘LINK AND PLACE’ STREET PLANNING AND DESIGN

Towards More Pedestrian-friendly Streets in Cairo

Expanding Walkability in Tehran’s Historic Downtown Case Study: Streets Leading to the Imam Khomeini Square (Maidan-e Tup-khana)

This research explores the correlation between ‘walkability’ and the ‘sense of place’ in Tehran’s streets, particularly streets leading to the Imam Khomeini square (Maidan-e Tup-khana) at the heart of historic downtown. The goal is to evaluate the walkability through a measurable method in order to prioritize strategies to enhance various aspects of the historic districts. After reviewing the e...

Finding Main Streets: Applying Machine Learning to Urban Design Planning

In the urban design realm careful consideration of connecting architectural form and socioeconomic function is a compelling issue. City planners and architects spend a significant amount of their time on collecting and integrating data from various information sources. Rapid growth of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) made it possible to map and display laboriously collected data, but these ...

Creating Relevant Science through Urban Planning and Gardening

The purpose of this article is to describe a community-based science project that was coproduced with urban teenagers and to elaborate on my understanding of what it means to create a practicing culture of science learning. This understanding will be positioned in relation to various educationally relevant discourses and research on urban science education, concluding with an exploration of the...

Democratic Urban Streets Design Guideline Codifications (Based on Qualitative Democratic Urban Spaces Design Norms)